Quin'zy, n.

(kwĭn′zĭ), n. [Contracted from squinancy, q. v.] (Med.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by painful and impeded deglutition, accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation;—called also squinancy and squinzey. Dunglison.