fungosity

English

Etymology

From fungous +‎ -osity; compare French fungosité, fongosité.

Noun

fungosity (countable and uncountable, plural fungosities)

1. The quality of being fungous.
2. (archaic) A fungal growth.
   • 1833, Robley Dunglison, “Fungos′ity”, in A New Dictionary of Medical Science and Literature, […], volumes I (A–L), Boston, Mass.: […] [E. W. Metcalf and Company] for Charles Bowen, →OCLC, page 421, column 1:

     The fungosities, which arise in wounds or ulcers, are easily repressed by gentle compression, dry lint, the sulphas cupri, or other gentle caustic.

References

• “fungosity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.