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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a pustule appearing in the night, or especially troublesome at night.
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The men are subject to attacks of dysentery, diarrhea, hepialus, chronic fevers in winter, of epinyctis, frequently, and of hemorrhoids about the anus.
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