English

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, volume XI, London: John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington Street, OCLC 624382219, 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.

Latin

Noun

vībex f ‎(genitive vībicis); third declension

1. wound left by a lash

Inflection

Third declension.

References

• vibex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press