Word.ws English Dictionary

coryza

/kəˈɹɑɪ.zə/

coryza noun: inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell.

Noun

coryza (countable and uncountable, plural coryzas or coryzae or coryzæ)

  1. Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell.
    • In his writing on coryza, Celsus repeats the belief of Hippocrates that some cases of phthisis owe their origin to catarrh of the nasal passages; so far as coryza is concerned, he says, there is nothing pestiferous about it unless it ulcerates […]1949, Robert Scott Stevenson, Douglas Guthrie, A History of Oto-laryngology
    • Frequent sneezing and fluent coryza, during the day (second day),⁴.^([sic])—Obstruction of left nostril, in evening […] After pain in the head, which continued ten days, coryza, sore throat, and extension to bronchial mucous membranes[…]1964, Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of Drugs Upon the Healthy Human Organism
  2. (broadly, metonymically) Rhinitis or rhinosinusitis; cold or coldlike illness; common cold.
    Synonyms:
    catarrh

coryza meaning in Tamil

coryza in Tamil

கொரைசா, கொறைசா, தடுமன், மூக்குச்சளி நோய், மூடுதடுமல், சளி

Synonyms of coryza

Forms of coryza

pluralcoryzas
pluralcoryzae
pluralcoryzæ

Origin of coryza

Borrowed from Latin corȳza, from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza, “nasal mucus”).

Words formed from coryza

Questions about coryza

What does coryza mean?
Coryza means inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell.
What is coryza in Tamil?
Coryza in Tamil is கொரைசா, கொறைசா, தடுமன். See Coryza meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is coryza?
Coryza is a noun.
How do you pronounce coryza?
Coryza is pronounced /kəˈɹɑɪ.zə/.
What is the plural of coryza?
The plural of coryza is coryzas.

Words near coryza in the dictionary

  1. corytophanid
  2. corytophanids
  3. corytophanine
  4. corytophanines
  5. corytuberine
  6. coryza
  7. coryzae
  8. coryzal
  9. coryzas
  10. coryzæ
  11. Corzine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: coryza (page history and authors); coryza (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “coryza.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/coryza. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.