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nummular medical definition
adjective
- Shaped like a coin; disk-shaped. Used especially of the thick mucous or mucopurulent sputum in certain respiratory diseases because of the discoid shape assumed when it is flattened on the bottom of a sputum mug containing water or transparent disinfectant.
- Arranged like stacks of coins. Used of red blood corpuscles in rouleaux formation.
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