Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A continued fever.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.), obsolete A continuous fever.
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- noun medicine, obsolete A
continuous fever .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"_Synocha de multo, sed synochus de putrefacto. _"
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Interpolated fevers are characterized by intermissions and remissions, and thus include our intermittent and remittent fevers; synochus depended theoretically upon putrefaction of the blood in the vessels, and was a continued fever.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Hey refers to two cases of synochus occurring in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, in women who had attended upon puerperal patients.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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Hey refers to two cases of synochus occurring in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, in women who had attended upon puerperal patients.
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The description of diseases given by the physicians who lived a century ago is for us unsatisfactory; we cannot understand what they meant by their vague designating of hepatitis, fibrous enteritis, diarrhoea and dysentery, peripneumonia, remittent and intermittent gastric fever, protracted nervous fever, typhus and synochus; there is no distinction made in any of the writings of that period between abdominal and exanthematic typhus.
Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 Achilles Rose 1877
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Hey refers to two cases of synochus occurring in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, in women who had attended upon puerperal patients.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Hey refers to two cases of synochus occurring in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, in women who had attended upon puerperal patients.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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