fomes
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Is fomes a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete, medicine) The morbid matter created by a disease.Examples: "If this putrid ferment could be more immediately corrected, a stop would probably be put to the flux, and the fomes of the disease likewise removed."obsolete
2. (archaic, medicine) Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.Examples: "Toys are common fomites."; "I cannot say that I have known it spread from fomites."Synonyms: fomitearchaic
3. (archaic, figurative) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.Examples: "Naturall tempers... prove a great Fomes of sinne."archaicfiguratively
Definition source: Wiktionary