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fomite

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈfəʊmʌɪt/Part of speech nounSorted efimotStarts with FEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. An object or surface that can carry and transmit infectious agents.

Word origin

A back-formation from fomites, plural of fomes, a borrowing of medical Latin fōmes (“tinder, kindling”), used figuratively to evoke the analogy of a spreading infection to a spreading fire.

Used in a sentence

  • This must be an efficacious fomite of cutaneous and pectoral disease.

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