morbus
nounUK /ˈmɔːbəs/ · US /ˈmɔɹbəs/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin morbus.
- I thought he were took with the Morbus one day, I did with his nasty angle! For “oh dear,” says he, and burst out in a cry, “oh my gut is all got of a tangle!”1838, Thomas Hood, “A Rise at the Father of Angling”, in The Comic Annual, page 47:
- Probably no small share of our cholera morbuses, diarrhœas, and dysenteries, have their origin in this source.1846, William Andrus Alcott, The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery, page 214:
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- Unfortunately, most of the morbi accepted in modern medicine are only taxonomic entities whose causal derivation is merely partially known and therefore polygenic.1979, F. Kraupl Taylor, D. M. K. Taylor, The Concepts of Illness, Disease and Morbus, page 117:
- Related terms
- cholera morbus, morbus coxarius, morbus cyclometricus, morbus Dupuytren, morbus mucosus