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Cynanche

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Cy`nan´che    (s?-n?n´k?)
n.1.(Med.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.


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All this was replaced by the practitioner inspecting the sick person for diagnostic signs, which could, in turn, be expressed in the technical and often Latinate jargon of scientific medicine: cynanche, tussis, ulcus cruris (leg ulcer), and so forth.
Patients, Power, and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol by Porter, Roy / Journal of Social History
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