Usage examples (19)

• "singultus," the rarely used medical term for "hiccups," but singultus would make a great title for the next Sigur Ros album (lowercase, natch, in a Druidic font).
• And if you reduce them, convulsions usually supervene; and, if not reduced, acute bilious fevers come on, with singultus and mortification.
• In fever attended with singultus, give asafoetida, oxymel, and carrot, triturated together, in a draught; or galbanum in honey, and cumin in a linctus, or the juice of...
• The Ephemerides mentions singultus as a cause of abortion.