grumous, a.
(ˈgruːməs)
[ad. mod.L. *grūmōs-us, f. grūmus grume: see -ous.]
1. Containing, consisting of, or resembling grume; clotted; thick, viscid. a. of blood.
| 1665 Phil. Trans. I. 86 The Kidneys filled with a kind of grumous blood. 1733 Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. i. §5 (1734) 119 When the globular and grumous Part [of the Blood] is in a far greater Proportion than the Serum. 1805 Med. Jrnl. XIV. 489 Extravasated blood, partly fluid and partly grumous. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 655 Grumous or granular blood, let loose from the liver, stomack, or some other digestive organ. 1872 T. G. Thomas Dis. Women (ed. 3) 471 He..cut into a tumor behind the uterus and gave exit to a large amount of black, grumous blood. |
b. of other fluids.
| 1665 Needham Medela Medic. 412 The offending matter is grown grumous, curdled or gellied. 1736 Bailey Housh. Dict. 129 The scalding the vessel..stirs up the grumous resinous and oily part of the wood. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 104 Soaps..soon after separate into grumous coagulations. 1852 Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. II. xvi. 53 note, The substance which falls down in grumous and filamentous clots is not pure caoutchouc. 1874 Cooke Fungi 41 The minute sooty spores are developed either on delicate threads or in compacted cells, arising first from a sort of semi-gelatinous, grumous stroma. 1890 Lancet 3 May 957/2 The appendix on examination, after removal, was found to contain a dark grumous fluid. |
2. transf. Of diseases, appearances, etc.: Characterized or caused by grume.
| 1779 Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 5 Oct., That Mr. Thrale's disorder, whether grumous or serous, must be cured by bleeding. 1801 Med. Jrnl. V. 258 A grumous dark appearance like to a slight extravasation. 1802 Paley Nat. Theol. xxiii. 467 A small grumous tumour. 1843 Blackw. Mag. LIII. 806 Flies and wasps, which no flapping will keep off from his [the thunny's] grumous liver. 1849 Sieveking Rokitansky's Pathol. Anat. II. 85 The contents of the intestine are of a..fetid, flocculent and grumous character. |
3. Bot. Of roots, etc.: Consisting or formed of clustered grains; granulated.
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 116/1 Grumous or knotty kernelly roots, fastned to one head. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 74 Seeds extremely minute (their nucleus consisting of a mass of grumous matter). 1863 Berkeley Brit. Mosses iii. 9 The spores of Mosses..consist of a grumous mass. |
Hence ˈgrumousness, grumous condition.
| 1676 Wiseman Surg. i. xiv. 65 The cause of which may be referred either to the coagulation of the Serum, or grumousness of the Bloud. |