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| ain·hum [ áynhəm ] |
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disease causing loss of fingers and toes: a disease, fairly common in Africa, in which a tight, fibrous, constricting band develops around the base of a toe or finger, causing it eventually to amputate spontaneously
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| [Late 19th century. Via Portuguese< Yoruba eyun "saw"] |
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