refluxo
Latin
Noun
reflūxō
- dative/ablative singular of reflūxus
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁeˈfluk.su/ [heˈfluk.su]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁeˈfluk.su/ [χeˈfluk.su]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁeˈfluk.so/ [heˈfluk.so]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁɨˈflu.ksu/
- Hyphenation: re‧flu‧xo
Noun
refluxo m (plural refluxos)
- reflux (backwards flow of any fluid)
- ebb (receding movement of the tide)
- Synonym: vazante
- (medicine) reflux (leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus)
- (distilling) reflux (liquid that returns to the fractionating column)
Further reading
- “refluxo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “refluxo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026