Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Gout in the hand.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Gout in the hand.

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  • noun medicine gout in the hand

Etymologies

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Latin, from Ancient Greek, meaning "hand seizure".

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Examples

  • His podagra hath become a chiragra, as honest Martial hath it — the gout has got into his fingers, and he cannot draw his purse.

    The Abbot 2008

  • It is also a sovereign remedy for the dreadful _chiragra_ or gout.

    Japhet in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Now the _chiragra_ may be divided into several varieties.

    Japhet in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

  • _Gonagra_, when it attacks the knees -- _chiragra_, if in the hands -- _onagra_, if in the elbow -- _omagra_, if in the shoulder, and _lumbago_, if in the back.

    Japhet in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

  • _Gonagra_, when it attacks the knees -- _chiragra_, if in the hands -- _onagra_, if in the elbow -- _omagra_, if in the shoulder, and

    Japhet, in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Now the _chiragra_ may be divided into several varieties.

    Japhet, in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

  • It is also a sovereign remedy for the dreadful _chiragra_ or gout.

    Japhet, in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Of Crustacea already described, _Palæmon longimanus_, _Alphæus marmoratus_, and _Squilla chiragra_; the legs of the last are red, and formed like a club; it uses them as weapons of offence or defence, and inflicts wounds in striking them out by a mechanism peculiar to itself.

    A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 Otto von Kotzebue 1816

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