sæptal
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]sæptal (not comparable)
- Archaic form of septal.
- 1896, Charles H. Knight, The Hot Springs Medical Journal, Volume V., №. 10, page #339:
- On the contrary , a large percentage of them are traumatic ; in other words, they are induced by the habit of picking the nose for the purpose of dislodging a mass of inspissated secretion, which is apt to accumulate at the apex of a sæptal spur or over an area of atrophied mucous membrane.