gelosis

Noun

gelosis (countable and uncountable, plural geloses)

1. (obsolete) A localized hardening or stiffness of tissue after exposure to severe cold, supposedly caused by a colloidal change resulting in gel formation and increased viscosity in the protoplasm of cells.
   • [H.] Schade explains the effect of chilling as tending to gel the colloids in the protoplasm. Any change in the colloid condition, no matter how transient, must upset the normal processes more or less. This “gelosis” from the action of cold can be felt in the stiffness in the face and hands after...1922 September 9, “Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, Basel: “Colds””, in Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 79, number 11, Chicago, Ill., →DOI, page 922
   • The older writers, follpwing Hippocrates, held that the fluids of the body were congealed by the direct effect of the cold, and we cannot regard as otherwise than an essential reversion to these ideas the theory of certain modern writers who speak of the effect of cold being due to a colloid injury...1926 March, Walter A. Wells, “The Atmospheric Factor in the Causation of Colds”, in Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, volume 35, number 1, St. Louis, Mo.: The Annals Publishing Co., pages...
2. (archaic) A hardening or stiffness of tissue, especially in a muscle.
   • If the tension of the bowstring decreases, the bow wood relaxes equally. However, if you pull on the string, the tension of the bow increases immediately. Myofascial geloses can exist on both sides, but the pain predominantly occurs on the hypertension side.2023, Rolf Eichinger, Kerstin Klink, “The Assessment in KLINEA” (chapter 9), in Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: Diagnostics and Therapy, Berlin: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 68