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bezoar

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Noun — A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.

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Borrowed from Spanish bezoar and/or French bézoard, based on Arabic بَازَهْر (bāzahr), from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “bezoar, antidote”), from a compound of words meaning “to protect” and “poison” (literally “killing thing”), thus a bezoar was “that which protects against poison”. In ancient times, bezoars from...

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