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Cacochymy

Cacochymy logo #21000 In the pre-modern medical practice of humorism, cacochymy, or cacochymia, referred to a depraved habit of body, replete with ill humors, from various causes. When the repletion was merely with blood, it was called plethora. Joannis Gorraeus gave the name cacochymia to the abundance and excess of any ill humor, provided it is only one in excess; pl...
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Cacochymy

Cacochymy logo #21002• (n.) A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood.
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