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noun (quinsies)
- (pathology) 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 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)
Etymology: Old French quinencie, from mediaeval Latin quinancia, from Greek "canine quinsy", from "dog" + "throttle".
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