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(usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound
Answer for the clue "(usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound ", 9 letters:
singultus
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Word definitions for singultus in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Latin, "a sob; a speech broken by sobs."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Singultus \Sin*gul"tus\, n. [L.] (Med.) Hiccough.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion; "how do you cure the hiccups?" [syn: hiccup , hiccough ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) The medical name for hiccups.
Usage examples of singultus.
The medical word for hiccups, singultus, is a perfect example of when physicians sound ridiculous.
While they were preparing to effect delivery by the vagina, the woman, in an attack of singultus, ruptured the line of laceration and expelled the fetus, dead.
No evacuation of the bowels had taken place for over two weeks, and as the patient suffered from singultus and constant pain over the epigastric region, a light cathartic was given, which, in twenty-four hours, gave relief.
Cowan speaks of a shoemaker of twenty-two who experienced an attack of constant singultus for a week, and then intermittent attacks for six years.
There is another case related in the same journal of a man who died on the fourth day of an attack of singultus, probably due to abscess of the diaphragm, which no remedy would relieve.
Dexter reports a case of long-continued singultus in an Irish girl of eighteen, ascribed to habitual masturbation.