epistaxis
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of epistaxis
1785–95; < Greek epístaxis a dripping, equivalent to epi- epi- + stag-, stem of stázein to drip, drop + -sis -sis
Example Sentences
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A gentleman of the Court of the Emperor Ferdinand suffered epistaxis when he heard a cat mew.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
In the treatment of epistaxis or bleeding from the nose, of hæmorrhage from the socket of a tooth, and sometimes from ulcerating or granulating surfaces, however, they may be useful.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Some of these instances were, perhaps, of the nature of compensatory hemorrhage, substituting the menses or periodic hemorrhoids, hemoptysis, epistaxis, etc., or possibly purpura.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
Dr. Charles W. Crumb cites the case of a man, sixty-five years old, with chronic nephritis, in whom a slight bruise of the nose was followed by epistaxis lasting twenty-four hours.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
Another writer in an old journal speaks of 75 pounds of blood from epistaxis in ten days.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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