The corpus record

ξῦσ-ις

xusis · ἡ

ulceration, erosion

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What it meant — LSJ

ulceration, erosion

ulceration, erosion, τοῦ ἐντέρου Hp. Acut. 60.

b excoriation

excoriation, Aret. CD 1.3.

2 scraping, filing, polishing

scraping, filing, Hp. VC 14, cf. Gal. 14.781, Ammon. in Int. 23.21, PMed. in Arch.Pap. 4.270 ; polishing, EM 611.20. (ξύσις is f.l. in codd.).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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