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  • verb Present participle of reflux.

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Examples

  • He also found that blood of his MS patients was "refluxing" and flowing back upwards to the brain, which he theorizes sets off a number of reactions, possibility explaining the underlining cause of a number of symptoms of MS.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

  • He also found that blood of his MS patients was "refluxing" and flowing back upwards to the brain, which he theorizes sets off a number of reactions, possibility explaining the underlining cause of a number of symptoms of MS.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

  • The best structural changes would even out trade imbalances by "refluxing" the surpluses of countries such as Germany, France, and the Netherlands in to deficit countries by, for example, investing euros in them.

    Dimitri B. Papadimitriou: Endgame for the Euro Dimitri B. Papadimitriou 2011

  • On November 11, she underwent a Nissen fundoplication, surgery that wraps the upper part of the stomach around the esophagus and sews it in place to help prevent food from refluxing up.

    Laura's CDH story 2010

  • The surgery entails wrapping the upper part of the stomach around the esophagus and sewing it to help prevent food from refluxing up.

    CDH — Spence 2010

  • The best structural changes would even out trade imbalances by "refluxing" the surpluses of countries such as Germany, France, and the Netherlands in to deficit countries by, for example, investing euros in them.

    Dimitri B. Papadimitriou: Endgame for the Euro Dimitri B. Papadimitriou 2011

  • Symptomatic refluxing disteral ureteral stumps after nephroureterectomy and heminephroureterectomy: what should we do?

    Publications of the Urology Division 2010

  • The feel-good morning self may not abide by the rules laid down by the refluxing self the night before.

    Why is low-carb is harder the second time around, part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • Somewhere between the sleep deprivation, the screaming, and the refluxing colic, I noticed a slight cloudiness in Gabe's right eye.

    Glaucoma Awareness Month Laurie 2009

  • Somewhere between the sleep deprivation, the screaming, and the refluxing colic, I noticed a slight cloudiness in Gabe's right eye.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Laurie 2009

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