Hepatojugular reflux

When several of the medical students, during a clinical assessment, told me that they were eliciting the hepatojugular reflex I began to wonder if I had it wrong. It is true that they weren't able to tell me what the relevant reflex arc might be, and one of them even told me that the idea that blood could be made to flow back—that is, reflux—through the venous circulation simply by pressing on the …