ozaena

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From Ancient Greek ὄζαινα (ózaina).

ozaena (countable and uncountable, plural ozaenas)

1. An atrophic type of chronic non-specific rhinitis characterized by a foul odor from the nose, now considered rare.
2. Any of the beetles in genus Ozaena, with one species, Ozaena dentipes.

• Klebsiella ozaenae

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ozaena”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄζαινα (ózaina).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔzˈzae̯.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [od̪ˈd̪͡z̪ɛː.na]

ozaena f (genitive ozaenae); first declension

1. A kind of polypus
2. A disease of the nose

First-declension noun.

• “ozaena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ozaena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.