reflux

Introduction

• A backward flow of fluid.
• To boil without loss of vapor, accomplished in chemistry by use of a condenser above a flask of boiling liquid, used for maintaining a solution at its boiling point.

More specific terms

• duodenogastric reflux
• gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
• laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR)
• vesicoureteral reflux

Additional terms

• regurgitation