vibex

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vibex (“the mark of a blow”).

Noun

vibex (plural vibices)

1. (medicine) An extensive patch of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.
   • 1865, S[amuel] O[sborne] Habershon, “Clinical Remarks on Diseases of the Skin”, in Samuel Wilks, editor, Guy's Hospital Reports (Third Series), volume XI, London: John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington Street, →OCLC, page 233:

     During the last winter, the child was again brought to me, but in a dying state, and the mother could not be persuaded to allow it to come into the hospital: it was as well-grown as children of its age, very anæmic, but with several purpurous spots, or rather vibices, upon the body; […] The poor mother afterwards came in great distress, because a medical practitioner, who had been called in to see the child, not recognising the nature of the malady, said there must be a coroner's inquest; the purpurous vibices upon the body being mistaken for the bruises of ill treatment.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vibex”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *weyb-, *weyp- (“to oscillate, swing”). Compare Latin vibrō (“I shake, brandish”).

Noun

vībex f (genitive vībīcis); third declension

1. (pathology) wound left by a lash, weal or welt

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vībex	vībīcēs
Genitive	vībīcis	vībīcum
Dative	vībīcī	vībīcibus
Accusative	vībīcem	vībīcēs
Ablative	vībīce	vībīcibus
Vocative	vībex	vībīcēs

References

• “vibex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vibex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.