fungosity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
fungous + -osity; compare French fungosité, fongosité.
Noun[edit]
fungosity (countable and uncountable, plural fungosities)
- The quality of being fungous.
- (archaic) A fungal growth.
- 1833, Robley Dunglison, “Fungos′ity”, in A New Dictionary of Medical Science and Literature, […], volumes I (A–L), Boston, Mass.: […] [E. W. Metcalf and Company] for Charles Bowen, →OCLC, page 421, column 1:
- The fungosities, which arise in wounds or ulcers, are easily repressed by gentle compression, dry lint, the sulphas cupri, or other gentle caustic.
References[edit]
- “fungosity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.