singultus

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

We recognise his old partiality for diminutives, as in the Frigidulos udo singultus ore cientem, and Languidulosque paret tecum coniungere somnos.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

The Ephemerides mentions singultus as a cause of abortion.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

There is another case related in the same journal of a man who died on the fourth day of an attack of singultus, probably due to abscess of the diaphragm, which no remedy would relieve.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Parker reports four rebellious cases of singultus successfully treated by dry cups applied to the abdomen.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Hiis auditis, risus in luctum, gaudium in lamenta, iubilus in singultus flebiliter conuertuntur, totaque regia ululatibus personuit et meroribus.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.