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بَاسُورٌ

Root: بسر

Full Definition

بَاسُورٌ A well-known disease; a swelling, or tumour, which nature drives to every part of the body, from a humour that comes from the anus (المَقْعَدَة), and the testicles, and the edges of the labia majora of the pudendum muliebre, and other parts; and when in the anus, attended by a swelling of the veins; sing. of ; which signifies a certain disease that arises in the anus (المقعدة), [namely, the hemorrhoids, or piles, to which this term generally applies when it is used absolutely,] and also in the inside of the nose; what resembles boils in the anus: sometimes the س is changed into ص: and it is said that the word is not Arabic.
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