Path. Also 5 sin-. [med.L. synocha, fem. of synochus: see SYNOCHUS.] A continued or unintermitting fever (or a particular species of this: cf. SYNOCHUS).
[1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VII. xli. (Bodl. MS.), lf. 60/2. Þis humour is … Symple whanne blood roteþ in þe veynes & bredeþ contynual feuer þat hatt sinothos & when it roteþ not it cresith in quantite & is ouersette…. And þanne comeþ a feuer þat hat Synocha & makeþ swelling.
14[?]. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 298, note. Blood… ȝif it ouer haboundeþ … & it is hett … & is corrupt, & neþeles it is not roten, þerof is maad a feuere clepid synocha continua. And ȝif he is roten, þenne is maad þerof a feuere clepid synochus continuus.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., Synocha, and Synochos.… Literally they both signify the same Thing; yet is the former used to signify an intermitting, and the latter a continu’d Fever.]
1801. Med. Jrnl., V. 234. Synocha … much resembles the symptomatic fever attendant upon phlegmon; and therefore, it has … been termed the inflammatory fever.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), II. 222. Of these [names], synocha … is the worst … it has been used in different senses by different writers, and approaches so nearly to synochus … as to create a perpetual confusion in the minds of young students.
