FANTOM
\fˈantəm], \fˈantəm], \f_ˈa_n_t_ə_m]\
Definitions of FANTOM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Something that exists only in. appearance; an apparition; ghost; specter; a vision; an illusion; mirage; often used adjectively; as, a fantom ship.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Thomas Davidson
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This word has two acceptations. It means the spectres and images which the imagination presents to the sick, when asleep or awake; and, also, the figure called, also, Mannikin, Manikin, and Manakin, (F.) Mannequin, on which surgeons practice the application of bandages, or the accoucheur the manual part of midwifery,-Phantoma obstetricium. Fantom or Phantom Tumour is one that forms, in the abdomen for example, simulating organic disease, and occasionally exceedingly deceptive.
By Robley Dunglison
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