Definition of Cynanche

1. n. Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.

Definition of Cynanche

1. Noun. (medicine) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty in breathing and swallowing. ¹

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Definition of Cynanche

1. a throat disease [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cynanche

cymophanous
cymoscope
cymose
cymosely
cymotrichous
cymotrichy
cymous
cymrite
cymrites
cymule
cymules
cymæ
cymæ inversæ
cymæ rectæ
cymæ reversæ
cynanche (current term)
cynanches
cynancum
cynanthropies
cynanthropy
cynarctomachy
cynarrhodium
cynegetic
cynegetics
cynganeddion
cynghanedd
cynic
cynic spasm
cynical
cynically

Literary usage of Cynanche

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Febrile Diseases: Including the Various Species of Fever, and by Alexander Philip Wilson Philip (1813)
"Of the Treatment of cynanche Maligna. The treatment admits of the ... As there are no cafes of cynanche maligna in which local remedies alone are ..."

2. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"The Свои P cynanche trachealis, Sait-j. fp. 5. ... cynanche. it will be obvious, that the cure of it requires the ' ""' mod powerful remedies of ..."

3. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1814)
"I may be allowed to remark, that Cullen's character of his fourth species of cynanche will not embrace the cases which I have above described. ..."

4. First Lines of the Practice of Physic by William Cullen (1808)
"... and to them, therefore, I must refer, both for the appearances which distinguish it, and for the method of cure. SECT. V. Of the cynanche ..."

5. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1812)
"APPENDIX TO TRE PAPER 0,V cynanche ... VV HEN the cases of cynanche ... this form of cynanche, and briefly referred to the cases of Dr. David Pitcairn, ..."

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