How To Use Singultus In A Sentence

• Hiccups, more officially referred to as singultus, from Latin - to catch your breath while sobbing are repeated, spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm causing a quick inhalation, which is then cut short by an involuntary closing of the glottis. NYT > Home Page
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• Examples include 'supervivant' (a survivor), 'transmural' (situated beyond a wall), 'singultus' (hiccup) and 'breviloquent' (pithy and succinct in speech). The Times Literary Supplement
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• Ex alto despicientes aliqui prae timore contremiscunt, caligant, infirmantur; sic singultus, febres, morbi comitiales quandoque sequuntur, quandoque recedunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
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• In fever attended with singultus, give asafoetida, oxymel, and carrot, triturated together, in a draught; or galbanum in honey, and cumin in a linctus, or the juice of ptisan. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
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• In fever attended with singultus, give asafoetida, oxymel, and carrot, triturated together, in a draught; or galbanum in honey, and cumin in a linctus, or the juice of ptisan. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
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