squinanzia

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squinanzia f sing (pl.: squinanzie)

  1. (medicina) (antico) mal di gola, che serra la gola e provoca soffocamento
squi | nan | zìa

dal greco κυνάγχη (tosse canina), per incrocio con συνάγχη (angina).

  • Garzanti, squinanzia, edizione on-line.
  • Vocabolario degli accademici della Crusca, 3a ed., 1681, squinanzia, edizione on-line.
  • Galeno, Ὅροι ἰατρικοί (Definitiones medicae), 154.