Path. Also 5 sin-. [med.L., a. Gr. σύνοχος, f. σύν SYN- + ὀχ-: ἔχειν to have, after συνέχειν to hold together, be continuous.] = SYNOCHA.
But often distinguished as a different species: see quot. 1848 and the introductory quots. s.v. SYNOCHA.
[1398, 14[?]. [see SYNOCHA].
a. 1412. Lydg., Two Merchants, 301. The fevere in phisyk is callyd sinochus.]
1625. Hart, Anat. Ur., I. ii. 27. [He] was … surprised with that feauer commonly called Synochus.
1657. G. Starkey, Helmont’s Vind., 164. The disease at the first … was but a plain Diary, though before the Doctors making an end, it be … changed into a Synochus.
1799. Med. Jrnl., II. 409. Persons exposed, without shelter, to the vicissitudes of the atmosphere, have been affected with the synochus.
1813. J. Thomson, Lect. Inflam., 111. The fever accompanying local inflammation … is often of a mixed nature like the fever denominated synochus by Dr. Cullen.
1848. Dunglison, Med. Lex. (ed. 7), Synochus, continued fever, compounded of synocha and typhus;—in its commencement often resembling the former; in its progress, the latter.
