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ῥυ^άς , άδος, ὁ, ἡ, τό, (ῥέω)
A.fluid, flaccid, flabby, “ῥυάδος σώματος γενομένου” Arist.PA668b7.
II. falling off, ῥ. θρίξ hair that is shed, Id.Pr.898a32; ῥ. ἄμπελος a vine that sheds its grapes, Thphr. HP4.14.6 (cod. Urb., v.l. ῥοάς), Gp.5.39.1.
III. as Subst., ῥυ^άδες, οἱ, fishes that go in shoals with the currents, like herrings, Arist.HA534a27, 543b14, Ael.NA9.46, al.
2. ῥυ^άς, ἡ, a disease of the eye causing a continual weeping discharge, Cels.7.7.4, Gal.10.1002.
3. urinary fistula, Heliod. ap. Orib.45.7.5, 50.4 tit., Aret. SD2.4（ῥοι- codd.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 2.4
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 9.46
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