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Film (medicine) and henfish (medicine)


Film (medicine)


Film


1. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering. "He from thick films shall purge the visual ray." (Pope)

2. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. "Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of Film." (Shak)

Origin: AS. Film skin, fr. Fell skin; akin to fylmen membrane, OFries. Filmene skin. See Fell skin.

To cover with a thin skin or pellicle. "It will but skin and Film the ulcerous place." (Shak)

Source: Websters Dictionary


henfish (medicine)


henfish
<zoology> A marine fish; the sea bream.

A young bib. See Bib.

Source: Websters Dictionary