FAME-FLOWER

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1892 · p. 38

n. Fam'flus-u4-u5r. The Talnum teretifolium. [B, 275 (a, 24).] FAMELICUS(Lat ), adj. Fasm(fasm)-e1>l(al)'i2k-u3s(u4s). From fames, hunger. Gr., ftov\i/juav. Ger., hungerIeidend. Famished, affected with bulimia; as a n., in the f., famelica (febris understood), an old name for a form of fever characterized by exce ive hunger. [A, 322.] [s. 800]