reflux

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Reflux happens multiple times a day to everyone, typically without our even knowing.

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2023

Reflux can also affect the respiratory tract, resulting in hoarseness, wheezing, postnasal drip, cough or asthma.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2021

Thus, we are introduced to figures such as Void, Screech, and the indelicate Reflux, whose party trick is to disgorge what can only be construed as a lava barf.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 18, 2018

My Facebook Trending list this week included this beaut: “Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease.”

From New York Times • May 22, 2016

The truth is, the Flux and Reflux of water in a vessel, by reason of the jogging of it, though it follow thereupon; yet is, for the most part, discernable some time after.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry