Letter C

Coryza

A cold in the head.

The word 'coryza' came from the Greek 'koryza' which is thought to have been compounded from 'kara', head + 'zeein', to boil.

The 'boiling over from the head' refers to the runny nose, an all-too-familiar feature of a head cold.

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