Crossword clues for singultus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Singultus \Sin*gul"tus\, n. [L.] (Med.) Hiccough.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Latin, "a sob; a speech broken by sobs."
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) The medical name for hiccups.
WordNet
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.