\Raph"a*ny\, n. [Cf. F. raphanie.] (Med.)
A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not
uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because
supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of
jointed charlock ({Raphanus raphanistrum}) had been mixed,
but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.