Vomit vs Reflux - What's the difference?
vomit | reflux |
To regurgitate the contents of a stomach; puke.
* Bible, Jonah ii. 10
To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
* '>citation
* Milton
* Charlotte Brontë
The regurgitated former contents of a stomach.
The act of regurgitating.
(obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
* Shakespeare
the backwards flow of any fluid
* 1719-
(chemistry) a technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period
(pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus
To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser
As nouns the difference between vomit and reflux
is that vomit is vomit while reflux is the backwards flow of any fluid.As a verb reflux is
to boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser.vomit
English
(wikipedia vomit)Verb
(en verb)- The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
- After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
- Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.
- a column of smoke, such as might be vomited by a park of artillery
Derived terms
* vomitableSynonyms
* See alsoNoun
(-)- He gives your Hollander a vomit .
Synonyms
* See also .See also
* emetic ----reflux
English
(wikipedia reflux)Noun
(es)- ...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...
