hyposphagma
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὑπόσφαγμα (hupósphagma).
Noun
hyposphagma (uncountable)
- (obsolete) A bruise or contusion; a bloodshot eye.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II.12:
- Those which are sicke of the disease which phisitians call Hyposphagma, which is a suffusion of blood under the skin, imagine that all things they see are bloodie and red.
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