Meaning of nummular | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or relating to coins or money.
   obsolete, rare
2. Flattened with a rounded form, as a disc; coin-shaped.
   broadly
3. Characterized by lesions (especially on the cornea or skin) which are round with well-defined borders.
   broadly
4. Of sputum: forming flat, round shapes (formerly thought to be a symptom of tuberculosis).
   broadly, obsolete

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Examples

“NUMMULAR […] An epithet applied to the sputa in phthisis, when they flatten at the bottom of the vessel, like a piece of money.”

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