fungosity

English

Etymology

fungous +‎ -osity; compare French fungosité, fongosité.

Noun

fungosity (countable and uncountable, plural fungosities)

The quality of being fungous.
(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.

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