orthopnoeae

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Noun

orthopnoeae pl

  1. plural of orthopnoea
    • 1655, John Goodyer , The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides…Englished by John Goodyer (1933 reprint, ed. Robert Theodore Gunther, Hafner Pub. Co.), page 201
      It helps those which are Liver-sick, and coughes, & ye Orthopnoeae, the quantitie of a spoonefull thereof being taken with hony, and it doth subducere alvum.