Genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees.
Any inanimate object that, when contaminated with or exposed to infectious agents (such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses or fungi), can transfer disease to a new host.
Veja mais 1 Whether There Is a Law in the Fomes of Sin?
2 Wherefore though Christ assumed them, He did not assume the fomes .
3 Therefore it was unfitting that the fomes should be entirely taken away from her.
4 Therefore by the sanctification in the womb she was not absolutely cleansed from the fomes .
5 Therefore the fomes was not entirely removed from her.
6 And in respect of this, it may be said that He purified her entirely from the fomes .
7 Objection 1: It would seem that the Blessed Virgin was not cleansed from the infection of the fomes .
8 By reason of its coolness it tempers superfluous heat: wherefore it fittingly mitigates the concupiscence of the fomes .
9 3), after her first sanctification the fomes remained in the Virgin.
10 But this can only be understood of purification from the fomes : for she committed no sin, as Augustine says (De Nat.
11 (3) Whether in virtue of this sanctification the fomes of sin was entirely taken away from her?
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