polonica

A different (and less tractable) problem is illustrated by the entry koltún (med.) plica (polonica)

languagehat.com: TITCHY. 2004

I'm guessing most Russians know what is meant by koltún, and I'm pretty sure very few users of the dictionary would know what is meant by "plica polonica."

languagehat.com: TITCHY. 2004

Thus we have the Basle edition (1590) which contains eleven languages: "Ambrosii Calepini dictionarium undecim linguarum: respondent autem latinis vocabulis hebraica, græca, gallica, italica, germanica, belgica, hispanica, polonica, ungarica, angelica".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Gulf of Finland ailments of the throat and the respiratory organs; plica polonica infects the marshy regions of Lithuania and Russian

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Plica polonica, or, as it was known in Cracow -- weicselzopf, is a disease peculiar to Poland, or to those of Polish antecedents, characterized by the agglutination, tangling, and anomalous development of the hair, or by an alteration of the nails, which become spongy and blackish.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Plica polonica, or, as it was known in Cracow -- weicselzopf, is a disease peculiar to Poland, or to those of Polish antecedents, characterized by the agglutination, tangling, and anomalous development of the hair, or by an alteration of the nails, which become spongy and blackish.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

The Ephemerides 6.57 contains the account of a woman who had hair from the mons veneris which hung to the knees; it was affected with plica polonica, as was also the other hair of the body.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

The Ephemerides contains the account of a woman who had hair from the mons veneris which hung to the knees; it was affected with plica polonica, as was also the other hair of the body.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Yesterday your daughter took a medicine intended to bring out her disease, the/plica polonica/; until that horrible disease shows itself on the surface you cannot see her.

The Brotherhood of Consolation Honor�� de Balzac 1824

[*] Balzac's description of/plica polonica/does not agree with that given in English medical dictionaries and cyclopedias.

The Brotherhood of Consolation Honor�� de Balzac 1824