coryza

plural coryzas · plural coryzae · plural coryzæ

1. countableuncountablemedicineInflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell.

   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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   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

2. broadlycountablemetonymicallyuncountablemedicineRhinitis or rhinosinusitis; cold or coldlike illness; common cold.

   Synonyms: catarrh