ambustion

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noun

A burn or scald.

OriginLatin ambustio →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounambustion (plural ambustions)

plural ambustions

  1. obsoletemedicineA burn or scald.

    I have found it very commodious in Ambustion, scaldings, burnings

    1670, George Thomson, Αἱματιασις; or, the true way of preserving the Bloud

Origin

  1. Latinambustio
  2. Englishambustion

From Latin ambustio.

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