Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Copious discharge of mucus associated with inflammation of mucous membranes, especially of the nose and throat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of a mucous membrane, especially of the air-passages of the head and throat, with an exudation on its free surface containing mucin and epithelial cells, but not involving a destruction of the epithelial layer or the formation of patches of false membrane, as occurs in diphtheritic inflammation: as, gastric catarrh; vaginal catarrh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted.
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- noun pathology
inflammation of themucous membranes of thenose andthroat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inflammation of the nose and throat with increased production of mucus
Etymologies
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Examples
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Simply the fear of "cold" -- an unfortunate name for that low form of fever properly called catarrh, and a name which is largely responsible for this mistaken idea.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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'My health seems in general to improve; but I have been troubled for many weeks with a vexatious catarrh, which is sometimes sufficiently distressful.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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[Illustration: E.M. Baily, Esq.] _Gentlemen_ -- I write this to let you know that I am well of that disease called catarrh of the head.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Chronic inflammation of the bladder, sometimes called catarrh of the bladder, an affection that is elsewhere herein fully treated of, and chronic inflammation of the kidneys, and true Bright's disease, as well as prostatic disease, are all liable to result from strictures of the urethra.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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In the same manner, there is a catarrh, which is liable to afflict persons who have often been subject to an inflammatory cold, particularly persons advanced in years; and this depends on a state of indirect debility of the parts, the excitability of which has been exhausted by frequent and violent inflammatory affections.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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'My health seems in general to improve; but I have been troubled for many weeks with a vexatious catarrh, which is sometimes sufficiently distressful.
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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'My health seems in general to improve; but I have been troubled for many weeks with a vexatious catarrh, which is sometimes sufficiently distressful.
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767
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This situation sometimes continues many months, or even years, and so much matter is evacuated after making water, or at the same time, by the action of the muscles in the vicinity of the sinuses, that it has been mistaken for an increased secretion from the bladder, and has been erroneously termed a catarrh of the bladder.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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When it is stopped by any reason, such as catarrh or disease, the skin fails in its work, and the noxious matters, instead of being expelled from the body, are thrown back into the system.
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.. n V 1 and sale of or corporation to manuiacture any so-called catarrh pow - cocaine, etc., prohibited.
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