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Formes vs Fomes - What's the difference?

formes | fomes |

As a verb formes

is .

As a noun fomes is

(medicine|obsolete) any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs.

formes

English

Noun

(head)
    • ----

    fomes

    English

    Noun

    (fomites)
  • (medicine, obsolete) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs.
    • Woollen clothes are said to be active fomites .
    (Webster 1913) ----