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Laryngitis   /lˌɑrɪndʒˈaɪtəs/   Listen
Laryngitis

noun
1.
Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx; characterized by hoarseness or loss of voice and coughing.



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spasmodic laryngitis


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"Laryngitis" Quotes from Famous Books



... went forward a few pages more in his exhaustive volume. He had attended all the lectures but three throughout the year, taking them down in short-hand. Laryngitis had kept him from those three, to which however, he had sent a stenographic friend so that the chain was unbroken. He now took up the next philosopher on the list; but his smooth discourse was, after a short while, rudely shaken. It was the second tennis boy ...
— Philosophy 4 - A Story of Harvard University • Owen Wister
... such a death; but when there is no option, one must simply resign one's self, and at once.... Spinoza expired in the presence of the doctor whom he had sent for. I must familiarize myself with the idea of dying unexpectedly, some fine night, strangled by laryngitis. The last sigh of a patriarch surrounded by his kneeling family is more beautiful: my fate indeed lacks beauty, grandeur, poetry; but stoicism consists in ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... larynx is a frequent and dangerous complaint. It usually commences with, and can scarcely be distinguished from, catarrh, except that it is attended by cough more violent and painful, and the dog expectorates considerably. Acute laryngitis is not so frequent an occurrence; but there is much danger attending it. Blood must be abstracted to as great an extent as the pulse will bear, or until it becomes evidently affected. To this must follow digitalis, nitre, tartar emetic, and aloes, ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt


Words linked to "Laryngitis" :   inflammation, redness, rubor, spasmodic laryngitis


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