coryza
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin corȳza, from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza, “nasal mucus”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈɹɑɪ̯.zə/
Noun
coryza (countable and uncountable, plural coryzas or coryzae or coryzæ)
- (pathology) Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell.
- 1949, Robert Scott Stevenson; Douglas Guthrie, A History of Oto-laryngology:
- In his writing on coryza, Celsus repeats the belief of Hippocrates that some cases of phthisis owe their origin to catarrh of the nasal passages; so far as coryza is concerned, he says, there is nothing pestiferous about it unless it ulcerates […]
- 1964, Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of Drugs Upon the Healthy Human Organism:
- Frequent sneezing and fluent coryza, during the day (second day),⁴.[sic]—Obstruction of left nostril, in evening […] After pain in the head, which continued ten days, coryza, sore throat, and extension to bronchial mucous membranes […]
- 1971, Edwin Burton Levine, Hippocrates:
- Sore throat and coryza (cold) in the very aged do not exhibit the phenomena associated with pepsis (apparently, the changes normally occurring in the younger population).
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Derived terms
French
Further reading
- “coryza”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /koˈryːz.za/, [kɔˈryːz̪d̪͡z̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈrid.d͡za/, [koˈrid̪ː͡z̪ä]
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | corȳza | corȳzae |
Genitive | corȳzae | corȳzārum |
Dative | corȳzae | corȳzīs |
Accusative | corȳzam | corȳzās |
Ablative | corȳzā | corȳzīs |
Vocative | corȳza | corȳzae |
References
- “coryza”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- coryza in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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