singultusn.
/sɪŋˈɡʌltəs/ 1. Pathology. Hiccups, hiccuping.Given in the Physical Dict. (1657) and in Blancard, Harris, etc., but without evidence of actual use in English.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > hiccupping
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1754–64 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery III. 180 A fever intervened..attended with singultus.
1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 395 Sickness, vomiting, singultus, languor, anxiety.
1816 J. Thomson tr. W. Cullen Synopsis Nosol. 197 Dry cough, vomiting, singultus.
1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 313 Singultus may be produced by pressure on the phrenic or branches of the pneumogastric nerve.
2. A sob. rare.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > sobbing > a sob
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1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV ii. 6 But, more or less, the whole's a syncopé Or a singultus—emblems of Emotion.
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