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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin corȳza, from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza, “nasal mucus”).
Pronunciation
Noun
coryza (countable and uncountable, plural coryzas or coryzae or coryzæ)
- (medicine) Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell.
- Hypernym: catarrh
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.—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).
- (medicine, loosely, metonymically) Rhinitis or rhinosinusitis; cold or coldlike illness; common cold.
- Synonym: catarrh
Derived terms
Translations
inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity
French
Pronunciation
Noun
coryza m (plural coryzas)
- coryza
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza).
Pronunciation
Noun
corȳza f (genitive corȳzae); first declension
- catarrh
Declension
First-declension noun.
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.