‖ panaˈricium, -itium Obs.
Also 6 -is.
[late L. panaricium, for paronychium.]
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| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 223 Panaricium is an enpostym þat is in þe heed of a mannes fyngir about þe nail. 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 39/1 Ther commethe in the endes of the fingers, somtimes a certayn vlceratione callede Panaris or Paronichia. 1663 Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. v. xi. 229 A Counsellor's wife, who..was cured of a panaritium. |