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A painful pus-filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues
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quinsy
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n. (context pathology English) A painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues, usually a complication of tonsillitis, caused by bacterial infection and often accompanied by fever.
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Quinsy may refer to: Quinsy, California; renamed Quincy, California Quinsy, a name for peritonsillar abscess Quinsy Gario (born 1984), Dutch anti-racist campaigner
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n. a painful pus-filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis [syn: peritonsillar abscess ]
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Quinsy \Quin"sy\, n. [Contr. fr. squinancy, F. esquinancie, L. cynanche a sort of sore throat, Gr. ? sore throat, dog quinsy, fr. ? dog + ? to choke; cf. also L. synanche sore throat, Gr. ?. Cf. Hound , Anger , and Cynanche .] (Med.) An inflammation of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"severe sore throat," late 14c., qwinaci , from Old French quinancie (Modern French esquinacie ), from Late Latin cynanche , from Greek kynankhe "sore throat," also "dog collar," literally "dog-choking," from kyon (genitive kynos ) "dog" (see canine ) + ...
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They have but the one office, the one industry: to provide tonsillitis and quinsy and such things for the possessor of them.
He felt as weak as the time he was ill with the quinsy, wandering for days in a raging fever that left him thin and unsteady as a newborn foal.
She is a hoary pandemonium of ills, enlarged glands, mumps, quinsy, bunions, hayfever, bedsores, ringworm, floating kidney, Derbyshire neck, warts, bilious attacks, gallstones, cold feet, varicose veins.
The wolf paused, turned its heavy forehead toward the dogs awkwardly, like a man suffering from the quinsy, and, still slightly swaying from side to side, gave a couple of leaps and with a swish of its tail disappeared into the skirt of the wood.
He had lain in bed with a summer quinsy all day long, and had only got up in the late afternoon in order to turn the ice-cream freezer.
The next day I came down with an attack of quinsy, which kept me in the house for nearly two weeks.
Various quinsies and flus put me in bed, and generally that was a time of great privileges.
Brother Ambrose to fall ill with a raging quinsy just a few days before the yearly rents were due for collection, and leave the rolls still uncopied, and the new entries still to be made.
Don't you want to know about Washington's broncho-pneumonia -- quinsy, they called it?