Path. [a. L. fīcus fig, fig-tree.] See quots.
c. 1400. Lanfrancs Cirurg. (MS. A), 287. Ficus is a maner wexynge þat arisiþ upon a mannes ȝerde tofore.
1494. Fabyan, Chron., clxxi. 165. At Goddes ordynaunce he had that euyll called fycus.
1860. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Ficus . Pathol., Surg. Name given to a fleshy substance or kind of Condyloma resembling a fig.