Path. [a. L. fīcus fig, fig-tree.] See quots.

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c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg. (MS. A), 287. Ficus is a maner wexynge þat arisiþ upon a mannes ȝerde tofore.

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1494.  Fabyan, Chron., clxxi. 165. At Goddes ordynaunce he had that euyll called fycus.

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1860.  Mayne, Expos. Lex., Ficus…. Pathol., Surg. Name given to a fleshy substance or kind of Condyloma resembling a fig.

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