SESAME

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1894 · p. 21

n. Se2s'a2m-e. The Sesamum orientate and Sesamum indicum. [o, 35.] S.-oil. See Oil of SESAMUM. SESAMOID, SESAMOIDAL, adj's. Se2s'a2m-oid, se2s-aamoi'd'l. Gr.. <7T)<ra;oioe(,SrJ9 (from vrjaafiov, sesame, and e'Sos, resemblance). Lat., sesamoides. Fr., sesamo'ide, sesamo'idien. Ger., sesamartig. Resembling or having the shape of a seed of sesame. [C.] See 8. BONES. [s. 479]