An alternative spelling of eclegma; a medicinal paste or preparation to be licked or slowly ingested.
A variant spelling of 'eclegma,' showing how Greek medical terms entered English with multiple acceptable spellings (eclegm/eclegma/eclegme) before standardization occurred.
This is just another spelling variant of the same Greek medical term—early English medical writers couldn't quite decide how to spell it, so all three versions ('eclegm,' 'eclegma,' 'eclegme') appear in old medical texts.
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