agrom

See also: agróm

English

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Etymology

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Noun

agrom (uncountable)

(medicine, obsolete, East Indies) psoriasis of the tongue
An elderly gentleman came in this morning, complaining of agrom, which he found very painful.
- 1875, George Gaskoin, On the Psoriasis or Lepra‎^[1], London: J. & A. Churchill, page 111:
  I confess at the time I thought this condition syphilitic, but afterwards I changed my opinion, for I heard since of its frequency in the Indian peninsula, and also I found a mention of it in old books under the name of agrom, showing that it had not escaped the notice of our predecessors...

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “agrom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Magor, Magro, Margo, Morga, groma, margo, marog, mogra