† rhineuryntern.
Medicine. Obsolete.
A device consisting of a small inflatable bag on a catheter, used to plug a nostril and stop a nosebleed. Cf. earlier rhinobyon n. at rhino- comb. form .
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1871 Med. Times & Gaz. 15 Sept. 465/2 Application of a colpeurynter for the arrest of epistaxis.—Dr. Closset.., under the name of Rhineurynter, recommends the use of an instrument, designed like a hard-rubber Eustachian catheter, which carries in its curved extremity a delicate sac.
1876 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 164 Belloc's canula or the rhineurynter.
1896 C. H. Burnett et al. Syst. Dis. Ear, Nose, & Throat I. ii. 742 Various india-rubber bags (termed rhinobyons and rhineurynters) which are inflated after insertion into the nostril are recommended by several authors, but have not come into general use.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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