coryza

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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)

  1. (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).
  2. (medicine, broadly, metonymically) Rhinitis or rhinosinusitis; cold or coldlike illness; common cold.
    Synonym: catarrh

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Noun

coryza m (plural coryzas)

  1. coryza

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza).

Pronunciation

Noun

corȳza f (genitive corȳzae); first declension

  1. catarrh

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.