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حَقْوَةٌ

Root: حقو

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حَقْوَةٌ : see حَقْوٌ, in two places.

def.2 Also A pain of the belly, which affects a man, from eating flesh-meat, occasioning diarrhœa; or occasioning an inflation in the حَقْوَانِ [or two flanks]; and so حِقَآءٌ : or i. q. هَيْضَةٌ [generally meaning cholera]. (TA in art. طسأ.)
2 And A certain malady in camels, in consequence of which the belly is rent by the [affection of the lungs termed] نُحَاز, [which occasions violent coughing,] and the animal voids not the urine nor dung, (K in art. فقأ,) often, also, having the veins and flesh choked with blood, and becoming swollen, or inflated, often to such a degree that the stomach bursts in consequence thereof. The word is mostly used in relation to a human being.
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