phyma

From Ancient Greek [Term?].

phyma (plural phymas or phymata)

1. (obsolete, medicine) A tubercle, tumor, or abscess on any external part of the body.

• “phyma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Ancient Greek φῦμα (phûma).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰyː.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfiː.ma]

phȳma n (genitive phȳmatis); third declension

1. (pathology) A kind of boil or tumour

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “phyma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• phyma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.