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noli-me-tangere (medicine)


noli-me-tangere


1. <botany> Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. See Impatiens. The squirting cucumber. See Cucumber.

2. <medicine> A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.

Origin: L, touch me not.

Source: Websters Dictionary