خَيْشُومٌ
Root: خشم
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خَيْشُومٌ
The extreme, or most remote, [meaning innermost,] part of the nose: or the interior of the nose: or the upper part of the interior of the nose: and the bone of the nose: or the part that is above the
نُخْرَة [which here seems to mean the end, or tip, or flexible part,] of the nose, of the bone thereof: and what is beneath this [is] of [the thin cartilages called] the خَشَارِم of the head: and the nose [altogether] is so called by some: the word is of the measure فَيْعُولٌ: and its pl. is خَيَاشِيم: which [also] signifies certain cartilages in the extreme [or inmost] part of the nose, between it and the brain: or certain ducts, (عُرُوق, [meaning, or including, the air-passages, see جُشَّةٌ, and نَخَرَ, &c.,]) in the interior (بَاطِن M, or بَطْن K) of the nose.
2 [Hence,] the pl. signifies also
3 And the sing., [as a coll. gen. n.,] Small, thin, black things, resembling flesh; and morbose nodes; upon a bone.
2 [Hence,] the pl. signifies also
3 And the sing., [as a coll. gen. n.,] Small, thin, black things, resembling flesh; and morbose nodes; upon a bone.
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