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synanchia

synanchia [CL synanche < συνάγχη], morbid inflammation or swelling of or in the throat, quinsy (in some quot. dist. from squinancia or cynanchia). Cf. cynanchia, squinancia. percussus ‥ incontinenti ~ia, coarctato vitalis aure meatu, per singula momenta suffocari putabat W. Cant. Mir. Thom. I 13; passione quam sinanciam physici appellant Ad. Eyns. Visio 19; quandoque tota materia est extra et dicitur synancia, et est adhuc †nimis [l. minus] mortifera, tamen periculosa Bart. Angl. V 24; quidam autem e contrario imponunt nomina sinantia, quinantia, squinantia; sed de hoc parum vel nihil curetur, quia nullum periculum vel proficuum ex nomine generatur Gilb. IV 177. 1–2; sinantis [? l. sinantia] interpretatur acutissima prefocacio; inde quinancia acuta prefocacio et squinancia minus acuta SB 39 (cf. Alph. 172).

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