Word of the Day - nidus

nidus

/ˈnʌɪdəs/
noun
1 Medicine
A place in which bacteria have multiplied or may multiply; a focus of infection.
2 A place or situation in which something develops or is fostered.

Origin
Late 17th century (in the former sense ‘place in which an insect deposits its eggs’): from Latin, literally ‘nest’.

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Festering, foul and flourishing, bacteria rapidly developed in the blemish, an unwanted and unsightly nidus.

(Fear not, Joe has been to the doctor to get it fixed. No gross images needed.)