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زُكَامٌ

Root: زكم

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زُكَامٌ and زَكْمَةٌ , or زُكْمَةٌ , with damm, [A coryza, or catarrhus ad nares; a rheum, in the most usual sense of the term, meaning a defluxion from the head, chiefly from the nose; commonly called a cold in the head;] a defluxion of redundant humour from the two anterior venters of the brain to the nostrils: well known: from زَكْمٌ meaning the act of “ filling. ”
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