noli-me-tangere

NOUN
  1. a cancerous ulcer of soft tissue and bone
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  • Warren pictures a case of noli-me-tangere, a destructive type of epithelial carcinoma. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • Due undoubtedly to the superstitious opinions about menstruation, which came over to us from the ages-of-long-ago, menstruation is still considered a _noli-me-tangere_, and women are afraid to bathe, to douche or even to wash during the periods. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • Had it no essential sacredness, no _noli-me-tangere_ quality of shining away the gambler's covetous glance, of withering his rude and venturous hand, or of poisoning, like some Nessus 'shirt, the lewd ruffian who might soon thereafter wear it? The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • There was also Mr. Wormwood, the noli-me-tangere of literary lions -- an author who sowed his conversation not with flowers but thorns. Pelham — Complete
  • In the damp and shady places of the woods there exists a plant of the same family which, for similar reasons, bears the even more expressive name of _Impatiens noli-me-tangere_, or touch-me-not. The Life of the Spider
  • Warren pictures a case of noli-me-tangere, a destructive type of epithelial carcinoma (Fig. 254). Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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