flux
1
9.6
- noun
- /flʌks/
- Archaic
:
diarrea
- After traveling through contaminated water, he developed a nasty flux, leading to dehydration and weakness.
- bloody flux
- flux (dysentery)
Examples
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Although Lesa was spared, a large number of the Choctaw had fallen prey to "chills and fever, diarrhea, flux, cold, and in some instances threatened with pneumonia." 14
Academic text (1990) -
Doctors warned that dysentery, known as flux, can be deadly if not treated promptly.
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About all he could remember of the trip was the heat and the odors of blood and shit, for many of the wounded had the flux.
Fiction book (1997) -
May not the flesh of winged dragons alleviate bloody flux?
Fiction book (1991) -
The soldier fell ill with a severe case of flux, experiencing painful abdominal cramps and watery diarrhea.
Synonyms
81
2.1
Frequent watery bowel movements that can cause dehydration
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.1
The amount of magnetic field that goes through an area, for example a wire loop
- Specialized
1
7.6
The amount of energy or particles that pass through each unit of area each second
- Specialized
1
7.2
How much invisible force from a magnet passes through one square area
- Specialized
A measure of how much magnetic or electric field passes through an area, for example the tesla
- Specialized
A unit that measures the strength of a magnetic field through an area
How Severe
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flux was used in medicine from the Latin fluere, 'to flow', to mean an excess flow of bodily liquid. That's why old texts call severe diarrhea a flux, because it is too much flow from the body.