cynanche

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  1. A name of various diseases of the throat or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing, as cynanche parotidæa, tonsillaris, trachealis, etc.
  2. Cynanche maligna. Same as angina maligna (which see, under angina).

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  • For example, in treating _cynanche tonsillaris_, —  A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
  • Quinsy is called cynanche, from the Greek words, kuon_, a dog, and ancho_, to strangle, because the distressed patient is compelled by the swollen state of his highly inflamed throat, to gasp with his mouth open like a choking dog 610] This plant is found growing in dry pastures, especially on a chalky or limestone soil, but it is not common; it has very narrow leaves, and tufts of lilac flowers Reverting to the Sweet Woodruff, the dried herb may be kept amongst linen, like lavender, to preserve it from insects She--"Fresh Woodruff soaks To brew cool drink, and keep away the moth A. Austin, Poet Laureate It was formerly employed for strewing churches, littering chambers, and stuffing beds. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Among the sthenic or inflammatory diseases may be enumerated rheumatism, catarrh, cynanche, or sore throat, scarlet fever, inflammations of the brain, stomach, lungs, &c. &c. Many of the contagious diseases, particularly small pox and measles, produce a sthenic state, and are to be cured, or their action moderated, by the debilitating plan which has been pointed out; and particularly by a moderate, constant, and equable diminution of temperature. —  Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
  • In the genus cynanche of the latter, are placed the common sthenic or inflammatory sore throat, or cynanche tonsillaris, and the putrid or gangrenous sore throat, the cynanche maligna: the former is a sthenic disease; the latter one of the greatest debility; yet they have the same generic name. —  Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
  • The peripneumony is very fatal to young children, especially as I believe it is frequently mistaken for a spasmodic asthma, or for the croup, or cynanche trachealis of Cullen. —  Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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  1. Late Latin (later ult. English squinancy, quinsy, q. v.), from Greek κυνάγχη, dog-quinsy, a kind of sore throat, also a dog-collar, from κύων (κυν-), a dog (= English hound = Latin canis, a dog), + ᾰγχειν, choke, suffocate.
 

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