Flux

Flux (Lat. fluxus, from fluo, 'I flow'), a discharge generally from a mucous membrane. The term is applied more or less frequently to all preternatural fluid evacuations from the body, but especially to those from the bowels and from the uterine organs. Dysentery (q.v.) was long termed the bloody flux to distinguish it from simple diarrhoea. See also CATARRH, DISEASE, MEDICINE.