fomes (English, noun)
expansion: fomes (plural fomites)
Senses:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The morbid matter created by a disease.
tags: obsolete
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.
tags: archaic
glosses: Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.
tags: archaic
figuratively
Forms:
form: fomites
tags: plural