afflux

Soon, the seemingly distorted course afflux will be replaced by an opposite distortion and value will again present itself as the rational touchstone.

A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.

The act of flowing towards; afflux.

In one who is much reduced by an antecedent disease, as phthisis, or who has a disease, chronic or acute, which produces a decided afflux of blood away from the surface and toward the interior of the body, the eruption is commonly tardy in its appearance, indistinct, or wholly absent.

Severe scarlet fever itself sometimes appears to cause gastro-intestinal catarrh so as to produce an afflux of blood toward the intestinal tract and away from the skin.