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Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> posted:

This, and the related noun grume, are doctors’ (and in particular pathologists’) jargon for a blood clot or any viscous fluid or mass of fluid.
but being aware of its existence in English may be helpful for those non-doctors who are familiar with French le grumeau (lump, clot) or Italian il grumo (clot (whether milk or blood)).

It’s an unremarkable borrowing from late Latin, OED describes [ad. late L. grumus little heap, hillock;]. I can’t find any convincing further etymology
beyond that.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/grumous_adj


https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grumous

Anagrams: sour gum, sourgum



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Now I prefer to post from this site
https://newsgrouper.org/rec.puzzles
because it's faster, but this Msg is not showing up there.


My bad... i was looking in the wrong NG

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