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Madura foot (iou) and arpen (medicine)


Madura foot (iou)



Madura foot noun phr. M19.
[from Madura, a city in southern India, now called Madurai.]
Medicine. Maduromycosis of the foot.

arpen (medicine)


arpen
<historical> Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. Yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.

According to Columella, a Gallic word for a measure equiv. To half a Roman jugerum.

Origin: F. Arpent, fr. L. Arepennis, arapennis.

Source: Websters Dictionary