Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of various diseases of the throat or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing, as cynanche parotidæa, tonsillaris, trachealis, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.
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- noun medicine Any disease of the
tonsils ,throat , orwindpipe , attended withinflammation ,swelling , and difficulty in breathing and swallowing.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Quinsy is called cynanche, from the Greek words, _kuon_, a dog, and _ancho_, to strangle, because the distressed patient is compelled by the swollen state of his highly inflamed throat, to gasp with his mouth open like a choking dog.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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And in defluxions upon the throat, from which are formed hoarseness, cynanche, crysipelas, and pneumonia, all these have at first saltish, watery, and acrid discharges, and with these the diseases gain strength.
On Ancient Medicine 2007
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(_Asperula cynanchica_), so called from the Greek _cynanche_, which means quinsy, because an excellent gargle may be made from this herb for the troublesome throat affection here specified, and for any severe sore throat.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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He has a good deal to say with regard to the treatment of angina, which he calls synanche, or synanchia, or cynanche, or angina.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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Dr. Balies, of Massachusetts, found it highly serviceable in cynanche maligna: he used a decoction of the roots both internally and locally, and these beneficial results have been corroborated by others.
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He continued to keep up the cuckoo sound, trying to laugh, and yet totally unable to accomplish even a cackle, as if some internal force clutched the diaphragm and mocked him, so that his efforts were reduced to a gurgling as in cynanche -- like a dog choking with a rope round his craig, the sounds coming jerking out in barks, and dying away again in yelps and whines.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII Alexander Leighton 1837
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In the genus cynanche of the latter, are placed the common sthenic or inflammatory sore throat, or cynanche tonsillaris, and the putrid or gangrenous sore throat, the cynanche maligna: the former is a sthenic disease; the latter one of the greatest debility; yet they have the same generic name.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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The peripneumony is very fatal to young children, especially as I believe it is frequently mistaken for a spasmodic asthma, or for the croup, or cynanche trachealis of Cullen.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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But as the inflammation is seldom I suppose confined to the upper part of the trachea only, but exists at the same time in other parts of the lungs, and as no inflammation of the tonsils is generally perceptible, the uncouth name of cynanche trachealis should be changed for _peripneumonia trachialis_.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Attending physicians could not agree whether his condition was cynanche, an inflammation of the throat that was believed to require powerful remedies, or something that would require less radical therapeutic interventions than those his physicians had prescribed.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word cynanche
JM takes the cynanche by the throat.
October 24, 2009