My girlfriend suffers from acid reflux.
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Reflux
//ˈɹiː.flʌks//
Synonyms for "reflux" (144 found)
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16 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- отлив noun (backwards flow of any fluid)
- оттегляне noun (backwards flow of any fluid)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 回流 noun (backwards flow of any fluid)
Finnish
1 entries- takaisinvirtaus noun (backwards flow of any fluid)
French
2 entries- reflux noun (backwards flow of any fluid)
- reflux noun (technique using a reflux condenser)
German
3 entries- Reflux noun (backwards flow of any fluid)
- Rückfluss noun (backwards flow of any fluid)
- Rückfluss noun (technique using a reflux condenser)
Icelandic
1 entries- bakflæði noun (backwards flow of any fluid)
Indonesian
1 entries- refluks noun (backwards flow of any fluid)
Irish
1 entries- aife noun (technique using a reflux condenser)
Korean
1 entries- 환류 noun (technique using a reflux condenser)
Polish
2 entries- odpływ noun (backwards flow of any fluid)
- wykroplina noun (technique using a reflux condenser)
Spanish
1 entries- reflujo noun (backwards flow of any fluid)
Sample sentences
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An acid reflux rose up in my throat.
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I have acid reflux.
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[…] after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out or coming in; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty river Orinoco […]
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