synochus

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek σύνοχος (súnokhos, “joined together”).

Noun

synochus

  1. (medicine, obsolete) A continuous fever.[1]

Usage notes

  • Synocha and synochus were used as epithets of two distinct types of fever, but in different senses at different periods. The same disease is placed under synocha by one author, under synochus by another.

References

  1. ^ 1884, Richard Quain, A Dictionary of Medicine Including General Pathology

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “synochus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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