a. Also spungoid. [f. Gr. σπόγγ-ος SPONGE sb.1 + -OID. Cf. Gr. σπογγοειδής, σπογγώδης, and SPONGEOID a.]

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  1.  Spongoid inflammation, a kind of soft cancer or morbid growth. (Cf. FUNGUS sb. 2.)

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1808.  Med. Jrnl., XIX. 431. A disease totally different from that affection named by them Fungus Hæmatodes, or Spongoid Inflammation.

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1834.  Cooper, Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), II. 579, note. The medullary sarcoma of Abernethy,… the spongoid inflammation of John Burns, and the soft cancer of several other writers.

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  2.  Having the form or structure of a sponge.

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1833–4.  J. Phillips, Geol., in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VI. 659. The abundance of spongoid fossils is a very remarkable character of the English and Westphalian chalk.

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1843.  Penny Cycl., XXVI. 245/1. Ventriculites, a genus of spongoid Zoophyta.

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  3.  Resembling that of a sponge.

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1847–9.  Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. I. 29/2. Its thickness becomes considerably augmented, its texture spungoid.

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