PHYMA
\fˈa͡ɪmə], \fˈaɪmə], \f_ˈaɪ_m_ə]\
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By Noah Webster.
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With the ancients, this word was used with great latitude: sometimes, in the sense of phlegmon, for tumours larger than a boil, and perfectly suppurative. In the nosology of Sauvages, Phymata is an order of diseases, to which he refers erysipelas, oedema, phlegmon, emphysema, scirrhus, &c. In that of Dr. Good it is a genus, including hordeolum, furunculus, sycosis, and anthrax.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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