FOMES
\fˈə͡ʊmz], \fˈəʊmz], \f_ˈəʊ_m_z]\
Definitions of FOMES
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
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Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.
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Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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f[=o]'miz, n. any porous substance capable of absorbing and retaining contagious effluvia:--pl. FOM[=I]'TES. [L., touchwood.]
By Thomas Davidson
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[Latin] Any substance serving as a good medium for the conveyance of contagion. Generally in pl. Fomites.
By Alexander Duane
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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