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Definition of Nummular
1. a. Of or pertaining to coin or money; pecuniary; as, the nummulary talent.
Definition of Nummular
1. Adjective. Of or relating to coins or money. ¹
2. Adjective. Coin-shaped; flattened, with a rounded form, as disk. ¹
3. Adjective. (medicine) : characterized by round lesions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nummular
1. shaped like a coin [adj]
Medical Definition of Nummular
1. Coin sized and coin shaped. Origin: L. Nummularis This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nummular
Literary usage of Nummular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Human Histology in Its Relations to Descriptive Anatomy, Physiology, and by Edmund Randolph Peaslee (1857)
"The aggregation of the Blood-corpuscles in nnm- corpuscles into nummular rolls (Fig.
... nummular ..."
2. The Diagnosis and Modern Treatment of Pulmonary Consumption: With Special by Arthur Carlyle Latham (1903)
"Elliott treated nummular sputum with solutions of perchloride of mercury (i in
... Moeller boiled nummular sputum for ten minutes, and then injected the ..."
3. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1905)
"If the case commences as a guttate type it will probably remain guttate; if it
commences with a larger lesion (nummular) as its habitual form, ..."
4. Syphilis; a Treatise for Practitioners by Edward Loughborough Keyes (1908)
"The nummular eruption is a (clinically rare) link between the two types. But in
healing the tubercle leaves a scar, the papule does not. ..."
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