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10 pathology terms (diseases and disease symptoms)

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10 [pathosis] words
apoplectic
dysentery
plethoric
angina
typhus
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choler

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Definition:
1. yellow bile: one of the four "humors" of medieval medical science, believed to cause anger when abundant
2. by extension: anger, irascibility
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“Lucilla, thy colour shews thee to be in a great choler, and thy hot words bewray thy heavy wrath,

John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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his full nostrils, denoting, I thought, choler;

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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suppose yourselves in my situation: as ye are stout Knights, would it not move your choler to have your own and the honour of your ancestors called in question?

Horace Walpole. The Castle of Otranto (1764)
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.762, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/762/mode/1up
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“And if you think you deserve applause for nobly refraining from committing rape on top of assault—” I choked on my choler.

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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No, my lord; rather with choler.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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