He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weal throat, and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech.
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Quinsy
//ˈkwɪnzi//
Synonyms for "quinsy" (70 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
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17 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- ангина noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
Czech
1 entries- peritonzilární absces noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
Esperanto
1 entries- angino noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
Georgian
1 entries- ანგინა noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
Hungarian
1 entries- tüszős mandulagyulladás noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
Irish
1 entries- sceith aincise noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
Italian
1 entries- squinanzia noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
Latin
1 entries- angina noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
Māori
2 entries- katirehe noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
- katitohe noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
Norman
1 entries- stchinnancie noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
Romanian
3 entries- amigdalită noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
- anghină noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
- gâlci noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
Russian
2 entries- анги́на noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
- жа́ба noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- at-bràghad noun (painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues)
Sample sentences
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b False. Quinsies are found at the back of the throat on either side of the uvula along the tonsils. c True. A quinsy grows as it swells with pus. This space-occupying effect can push the uvula away from it towards the opposite side.
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The patient may have cervical lymphadenopathy, trismus (moderate to severe increases suggestive of quinsy in acute setting), erythema of tonsils, crypt debris in tonsils or purulence of tonsils.
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