Middle English Dictionary Entry
asma n.
Entry Info
| Forms | asma n. Also asme. |
| Etymology | ML, from Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Difficulty of breathing, asthma.
Associated quotations
- (?a1390) Daniel *Herbal (Add 27329)f.195va : If þer be do to polipodie & anet, it is þe beter & it is good for þe asme & flux of þe stomac .
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)87a/b : Difficulte & hardnesse of breþinge hat asma & comeþ of double cause: of drynes þat streyneþ þe longen..And so beþ þere þre manere asmyes, difficulte of breþinge, as humours lettiþ þe longen in þre maners.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)310/17 : A round cauterie..is good for asma.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)107a/b : Akyng of iuncturez somtyme bryngeþ to asma [L ad asma].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)142a/a : Couȝhing & asmate [*Ch.(2): asma; L asmate].
- c1450 Royal SSecr.(Roy 18.A.7)28/35 : It is goode to purge þe wombe for an yville that men call Asmon and Asmaton.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. asma.