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σφυγμοί (sphygmoi)

σφυγμοί is an Ancient Greek form of σφυγμός, meaning “throbbing of inflamed parts; beating of the heart”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Hippocrates, De diaeta acutorum 4: … δὲ τοῖσι πλείστοισιν αὐτέων τοιάδε· ἐρυθήματα προσώπου, ὀμμάτων στάσιες, χειρῶν διαστάσιες, ὀδόντων τρισμοὶ, σφυγμοὶ, σιηγόνων ξυναγωγὴ, καὶ κατάψυξις ἀκρωτηρίων, πνευμάτων ἀπολήψιες ἀνὰ τὰς φλέβας.

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum libri duo 2.9·3: … ν· ποτὶ καὶ ἐκλύσιες δυνάμιος, ὑπολύσιες γουνάτων, καυσώδεες, διψαλέοι, ἀσώδεες, ναυτίη μελάνων, γλῶσσα ξηρὴ, σφυγμοι σμικροὶ, ἄτονοι.

All forms of σφυγμός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.