fomes
IPA: foʊmz
noun
- (obsolete, medicine) The morbid matter created by a disease.
- (archaic, medicine) Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.
- (archaic, figurative) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.
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Examples of "fomes" in Sentences
- The name means having the appearance of fomes.
- The name means 'having the appearance of fomes.
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