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fungibles (medicine)


fungibles


1. Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; called also fungible things.

2. Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually.

Origin: LL. (res) fungibiles, probably fr. L. Fungi to discharge. "A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem recipere in the Digeste." Bouvier. "Called fungibiles, quia una alterius vice fungitur." John Taylor (1755). Cf. Function.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Fremont, John C. (oh)



(1813-90) a US soldier, politician, and explorer, who was called 'The Pathfinder' because he travelled across the western part of North America and made maps of this area. He encouraged US citizens to move to these places, which are now the states of Idaho, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and California.