coryzae

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
2. (broadly, metonymically) Rhinitis or rhinosinusitis; cold or coldlike illness; common cold.

   Synonyms:

   catarrh