halitus

The halitus of his breath hung in the air, slow to disperse.

In spite of that man's putrid halitus, she had saved his life when his heart had stopped.

The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halitus of freshly shed blood was in the air.

Halitosis combines the Latin halitus, meaning 'breath', with the Greek suffix osis often used to describe a medical condition, e.g., "cirrhosis of the liver".

It was the fetid halitus of the most diseased mortality con- densed to its essence and elevated to the transcendence of prophecy, promise, suzerain truth-the definitive command- ment of darkness.

The halitus of the place came to her, the stench of the man's body mingled with the smell of the confined animals and the odour of their droppings, all flavoured with the fumes from the char- coal.

The mouth of the old man whose life she had saved on Haven Into the Wight warrens 403 Farm had been as foul as this; but she had borne that putrid halitus in order to fight for his survival.