Path. [a. Gr. σπαργάνωσις (Dioscorides 2. 129 in old editions; but in 3. 41 σπάργωσις SPARGOSIS), for σπάργησις, f. σπαργᾶν to swell.]
† 1. (See quot.) Obs.–0
1693. trans. Blancard’s Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Sparganosis, a Distention of the Breasts, occasioned by too much Milk. [Also in Phillips (1706), Bailey, Chambers (1753), etc.]
2. Puerperal swelling of the legs.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), II. 633. This … was an instance of erratic or metastatic rheumatism rather than sparganosis. Ibid., V. 612. In a singular enlargement of the lower extremity produced by a puerperal sparganosis.
