fomes

IPA（発音記号）

名詞

廃用古語比喩的用法

日本語の意味

病気により生成される、異常または病的な物質。 / （fomite と同義）感染症を人から人へ伝播する可能性のある物質。

The surgeon noted layers of fomes within the wound that hindered healing.

外科医は創傷内に治癒を妨げる病的産物の層を確認した。

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(archaic, medicine) Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.

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

意味（3）

(archaic, figuratively) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.

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

fomites

（ plural ）