† leucoˈphlegmacy Path. Obs.
Also in mod.L. form leucophlegmatia.
[ad. Gr. λευκοϕλεγµατία, f. λευκό-ς white + ϕλεγµατ- phlegm.]
‘A dropsical tendency, denoted by a pale, tumid and flabby condition of body’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
| 1657 Physical Dict., Leucophlegmatia, a kind of dropsie. 1681 tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Vocab., Leucophlegmacy, the kind of dropsy that riseth of white phlegm throughout all the body, and makes the flesh spongy. 1732 Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 381 It [Cachexy] sometimes disposeth to Consumptions, sometimes to Leucophlegmacy. 1747 tr. Astruc's Fevers 139 The urine thus retained in the blood, soon joins with the other humours of the body; whence the lymphatic ducts are over-loaded, and a leucophlegmatia induced. |