fomes

fomes
Objects, such as clothing, towels, and utensils that possibly harbor a disease agent and are capable of transmitting it; usually used in the plural. SYN: fomite. [L. tinder, fr. foveo, to keep warm]

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n. (pl. fomites)
any object that is used or handled by a person with a communicable disease and may therefore become contaminated with the infective organisms and transmit the disease to a subsequent user. Common fomites are towels, bed-clothes, cups, and money.

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fo·mes (foґmēz) pl. foґmites [L. “tinder”] fomite.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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