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CYNANCHE

Definition: CYNANCHE

CYNANCHE

Noun

1. Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: CYNANCHE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disease

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: CYNANCHE

English words defined with "CYNANCHE": sore throat. (references)
Etymologies containing "CYNANCHE": Quinsy. (references)

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Modern Translation: CYNANCHE

Language Translations for "CYNANCHE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

angina faucium (angina, quinsy, sore throat). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

cynanche (angina, quinsy, sore throat). (various references)

   

French

  

cynanche, angine. (various references)

   

German

  

Cynanche. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κυνάγχη (angina, quinsy). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cinanche, angina soffocante. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ynanchecay

   

Portuguese

  

angina (angina, angina pectoris, quinsy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cinanquia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "CYNANCHE"

Words rhyming with "CYNANCHE" (pronounced 'Cy*nan"che'): leveche, Psyche, Recche. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CYNANCHE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-n-n-y"

-2 letters: chance, chancy.

-3 letters: cache, canny, hance, henna, hyena, nance, nancy, yecch.

-4 letters: ache, achy, acne, cane, ceca, chay, cyan, each, haen, yeah, yean, yech.

-5 letters: ace, ane, any, aye, can, cay, hae, hay, hen, hey, nae, nah, nan, nay, yah, yea, yeh, yen.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-h-n-n-y"
 

+2 letters: catchpenny, trenchancy.

 

+5 letters: cyclohexanone.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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