cacochymy arch.
(ˈkækəʊkaɪmɪ)
Also 6–8 -chymie, and in Latin form 6– cacochymia, (7 cacochym).
[a. F. cacochymie (16th c. in Paré), and mod.L. cacochȳmia, a. Gr. κακοχῡµία (Galen) badness of the humours, f. κακόχῡµος: see above.]
In the medical system of the Humorists: Unhealthy state of the ‘humours’ or fluids of the body; ‘ill-humoured’ state (of the body).
| 1541 R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 A ij b, Yf eroysion habounde inwardely it is caused of cacochimie. 1665 G. Harvey Advice agst. Plague 21 Cacochymies or fowl bodies of the Vulgar..do require strong Purges. 1651 Biggs New Disp. ¶184 The Anarchy of a cacochymia keeps not court in the veins. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. i. 20 The Melancholick Cacochymie. Ibid. xvi. 550 A great corruption of the Blood and Cacochym. 1744 Mitchell in Phil. Trans. XLIII. 144 A peculiar kind of Cachexy, accompanied with an atrabilious Cacochymy. 1839 New Monthly Mag. LVI. 386 Are not their countenances disfigured by the cacochymy of their humours. 1852 Hamilton Discuss. 248. |