coryza
noun/kəˈɹɑɪ.zə/ · /kəˈɹɑi.zə/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin corȳza, from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza, “nasal mucus”).
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Medicine, Sciences Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell.
- In his writing on coryza, Celsus repeats the belief of Hippocrates that some cases of phthisis owe their origin to catarrh of the nasal passages; so far as coryza is concerned, he says, there is nothing pestiferous about it unless it ulcerates […]1949, Robert Scott Stevenson, Douglas Guthrie, A History of Oto-laryngology:
- Frequent sneezing and fluent coryza, during the day (second day),⁴.^([sic])—Obstruction of left nostril, in evening […] After pain in the head, which continued ten days, coryza, sore throat, and extension to bronchial mucous membranes[…]1964, Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of Drugs Upon the Healthy Human Organism:
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- Sore throat and coryza (cold) in the very aged do not exhibit the phenomena associated with pepsis (apparently, the changes normally occurring in the younger population).1971, Edwin Burton Levine, Hippocrates:
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Medicine, Sciences Broadly, Metonymically Rhinitis or rhinosinusitis; cold or coldlike illness; common cold.
- Derived terms
- coryzal