quinsy

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A painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues, usually a complication of tonsillitis, caused by bacterial infection and often accompanied by fever

1891: He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘A Case Of Identity’ (Norton 2005 p.85).

{n} a very dangerous disease in the throat
a painful pus-filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis
streptococcal tonsillitis
{i} inflammation of the tonsils, tonsillitis
An acute inflammation of the tonsils, often leading to an abscess
An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever
tonsillitis
It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; called also squinancy, and squinzey
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    Расстановка переносов

    quin·sy

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    Этимология

    () Old French quinencie, from mediaeval Latin quinancia, from Greek κυναγχη ‘canine quinsy’, from κύων ‘dog’ + αγχειν ‘throttle’.
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