Fomes

Quick meaning: Fomes is a noun meaning (obsolete, medicine) The morbid matter created by a disease.

Meaning

(obsolete, medicine) The morbid matter created by a disease.

More Meanings

1. (archaic, medicine) Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.
2. (archaic, figurative) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.

Example Sentences

Toys are common fomites.

Naturall tempers... prove a great Fomes of sinne.

I cannot say that I have known it spread from fomites.

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.

Word Forms

• fomites

Synonyms for fomes

Depending on context, synonyms include fomite.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include funge, feculence, fumosity, fumet, fumetere, fewmet.

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