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NUMMULAR

\nˈʌmjʊlə], \nˈʌmjʊlə], \n_ˈʌ_m_j_ʊ_l_ə]\

Definitions of NUMMULAR

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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An epithet applied to the sputa in phthisis, when they flatten at the bottom of the vessel, like a piece of money, and to the mode of aggregation of the red corpuscles of the blood-'nummular rolls.'

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

See Nummiforin.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

Coin-like; term used to describe sputa. [Lat.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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