Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See cold.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In pathology, an acute inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nostrils, eyes, etc.; a cold in the head. See ozæna.
Wiktionary
- n. pathology Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) Nasal catarrh.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nose (usually associated with nasal discharge)
Etymologies
- Late Latin corȳza, from Greek koruza, catarrh. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I have been suffering from my annual attack of "coryza," or hay-cold.”
“In the early stage it is 'coryza', or nasal catarrh; but the affection rapidly extends, and seems to attack the mucous membranes generally, determined to some particular one, either by atmospheric influence or accidental causes, or constitutional predisposition.”
“When 'coryza' in the dog runs on to catarrh, and the membrane of the pharynx partakes of the inflammation, the velum palati becomes inflamed and thickened, but will not act as a perfect communication between the mouth and the nose.”
“Next day Popinot had an attack of coryza, a complaint which is not dangerous, and generally known by the absurd and inadequate name of a cold in the head.”
“Catarrhs and coryza in very old people are not concocted.”
“But if the summer is parched and northerly, but the autumn rainy and southerly, headache and sphacelus of the brain are likely to occur; and in addition hoarseness, coryza, coughs, and in some cases, consumption.”
“Walking is the cause of such complaints, and also of coryza and hoarseness.”
“It is bad when coryza and sneezing either precede or follow affections of the lungs, but in all other affections, even the most deadly, sneezing is a salutary symptom.”
“Nate gets coryza wrong, so Evan needs to get one word right.”
“When the nasal membrane is irritated by a violent coryza”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coryza’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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The Nose Knows
Being Nosy.
nosethril, nostril, nebby, nasal, rhinoplasty, pug, button, Roman, turned-up, Pinocchio, Cyrano de Bergerac, Gonzo and 54 more...
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malechi's list
peculiar, obscure, quirky, obsolete
cynosure, roun, clinquant, sprezzatura, cavil, salubrious, incunabulum, susurrus, scuppernong, coryza, arsiversie, gobemouche and 1 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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Madame Bovary
Some good words (chiefly French of origin, and often to do with the medical profession) encountered reading the Aveling translation -- mostly new to me, but a few words that are just worthy of bein...
tulle, argand, friable, corolla, lives of stir, difficile, rime, inveigh, feuilleton, peristyle, refulgence, wainscoting and 98 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Interesting Scrabble words
Interesting words worth @ least 15 points.
smoochy, zareba, hyphal, djellaba, cloque, pyxidium, qindarka, squiffy, howbeit, chthonic, quinta, azimuthal and 264 more...
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Rillons of Random Palavery
A list for terms and phrases that I haven't (yet) entered into themed lists, including my series of various 151-word Random Palavery lists. Constructions that catch my eye, ring in my ears, tease m...
ridge cucumber, co-CEO, debt worry, jackalope bustiere, gimblette, ring-biscuit, cobnut, poussoir, praire, coque rayée, rigadelle, coing and 1459 more...
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Words that make you go hmmmm...
Interesting words you probably won't hear in your day-to-day.
maxwell, mooncalf, quagga, glaikit, musquash, lingam, haruspex, qindarka, chthonic, ipomoea, azimuthal, valuta and 305 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Seriously? No, not really.
Serious-sounding "conditions" which are perfectly normal.
deglutition, sternutation, pandiculation, tussis, borborygmus, lacrimation, singultus, stertor, eructation, flatus, sudation, pruritus and 25 more...
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April 2010
ructus, eructation, emesis, merycism, cachexia, copremesis, fistula, hydrocephalus, glottis, afferent, efferent, bleb and 27 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for coryza.
chained_bear "'You can have croup by itself, so to speak, or as an early symptom of various other things.'
'Such as?' Bree had a death grip on Jemmy....
'Oh...' Claire seemed to be listening intently, but not to Bree. More to whatever was happening inside Jemmy, who had quit coughing and was lying exhausted against his mother's shoulder, breathing thickly in steam-engine gasps. 'Um ... coryza—that's only a common cold. Influenza. Asthma. Diphtheria. But it isn't that,' she added hurriedly."
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 707 Jan 25, 2010
malechi "The planet Pluto is so far away, and isolated from the sun, it is said, that it produces coryza tempratures."
--Angel Steinborn, Urban Dictionary
Of course, Pluto isn't a planet anymore; it's been downgraded by astronomers to a dwarf planet, or minor planet. (I would prefer to call it a planetoid, just because I like the sound of that.) It's essentially a celestial snowball, probably with a rock in the center -- the kind of thing the bully down the street threw at you in when you were a kid, just because he hated your snowsuit. Dec 7, 2008