stegnosis

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στέγνωσις (stégnōsis), from στεγνός (stegnós, “watertight”).

Noun

stegnosis (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, archaic) constipation
  2. (medicine, archaic) constriction of the vessels or ducts
    • 1898, Werner's magazine, volume 20:
      The nasal passages should be carefully examined for symptoms of stegnosis, enlargement of the turbinated bones, polypi, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stegnosis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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