fungosity

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English

Etymology

From fungous +‎ -osity; compare French fungosité, fongosité.

Noun

fungosity (countable and uncountable, plural fungosities)

  1. The quality of being fungous.
  2. (archaic) A fungal growth.
    • 1833, Robley Dunglison, “Fungos′ity”, in A New Dictionary of Medical Science and Literature, , volumes I (A–L), Boston, Mass.: 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.

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