Jan. 27th, 2011

cerumen

Jan. 27th, 2011 07:14 am
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cerumen (si-ROO-men) - n., earwax.


That is, the medical term for. Like most medical terms, from New Latin (borrowed around 1740), from Latin cēra, wax, plus an irregular ending apparently patterned after albumen, the white of an egg.

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---L.
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