coryza

Definitions

1. Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell.
   countable, uncountable
2. Rhinitis or rhinosinusitis; cold or coldlike illness; common cold.
   broadly, countable, metonymically, uncountable

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Examples

“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 […]”

“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[…]”

“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).”

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