Usually means: Objects likely to harbor infection.
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  2. fomes: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. Fomes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Fomes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. fomes: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  12. Fomes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. fomes: FreeDictionary.org
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  16. Fomes: Merriam-Webster

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  3. fomes: Medical dictionary

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  1. FOMES: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (fomes)

noun:  (obsolete, medicine) The morbid matter created by a disease.
noun:  (archaic, medicine) Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.
noun:  (archaic, figurative) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.

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