coryza

Borrowed from Latin corȳza, from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza, “nasal mucus”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɑɪ̯.zə/

coryza (countable and uncountable, plural coryzas or coryzae or coryzæ)

1. (pathology) Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell.
   • 1949, Robert Scott Stevenson, Douglas Guthrie, A History of Oto-laryngology:

     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  […]

   • 1964, Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of Drugs Upon the Healthy Human Organism:

     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 […]

   • 1971, Edwin Burton Levine, Hippocrates:

     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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coryza m (plural coryzas)

1. coryza

• “coryza”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈryːz.za/, [kɔˈryːz̪d̪͡z̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈrid.d͡za/, [koˈrid̪ː͡z̪ä]

corȳza f (genitive corȳzae); first declension

1. catarrh

First-declension noun.

• “coryza”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coryza in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.