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Definition: CACOCHYMY

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Cacochymy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Specialty Definition: CACOCHYMY

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Noun] A vicious state of the vital humors, especially of the blood, arising from a disorder of the secretions or excretions, or from contagion. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.

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

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Extended Definition: CACOCHYMY

Cacochymy

In the pre-modern medical practice of humoralism, cacochymy, or cacochymia, referred to a depraved habit of body, replete with ill humors, from various causes. When the repletion was merely with blood, it was called plethora.

Joannis Gorraeus gave the name cacochymia to the abundance and excess of any ill humor, provided it is only one in excess; plethora he called the abundance or excess of all the humors together.

This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

See also

  • cachexia

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