Plural of grume; multiple clots, lumps, or viscid masses.
Simply the plural of grume, formed by adding -s to the Latin-derived singular.
In medical writing from the 1600s-1800s, 'grumes' appears frequently in descriptions of diseased or putrefied matter—it's the kind of specific, slightly gross terminology that made old medical texts both precise and disturbing to modern readers.
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