hyposphagma
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ὑπόσφαγμα (hupósphagma).
Noun edit
hyposphagma (uncountable)
- (obsolete) A bruise or contusion; a bloodshot eye.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, II.12:
- Those which are sicke of the disease which phisitians call Hyposphagma, which is a suffusion of blood under the skin, imagine that all things they see are bloodie and red.