hist▪ Lane viii 1893: ‘a certain disease that happens in the inner angles of the eyes (Ṣ, Mṣb, Q), with an incessant defluxion therefrom (Ṣ, TA) and sometimes it happens also in the part around the anus, and in the gum (Ṣ, Mṣb), or it signifies also a certain disease in the part around the anus, and a certain disease in the gum; nawāṣīr, pl. of nāṣūr: accord. to certain of the physicians, is a term applied to deep ulcers in the anus, at the extremity of the gut; – also: a vein constantly becoming recrudescent, with an incessant defluxion, corrupt within, whenever its upper part heals breaking forth again with corruption’.