fetor
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By midmorning, when Morse helped load them into a wooden crate inside a light twin-engine propeller Beechcraft Baron, they were burnished with a sheen of oil and emitted a stomach-turning fetor.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2019
What was most unusual for a dream was that my nose was active, wrinkling in disgust at the fetor of rotten grass and the ichor of freshly overturned earth.
From Time Magazine Archive
But anyway, it's called fetor hepaticus, and it's a symptom of late-stage liver failure.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
The aroma that fills, as it were, the nostrils of my memory is the sulfurous, protein-dissolving fetor of Nair.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The fetor of the discharge draws attention to the part whenever one enters the stable, and the swollen pastern and wet, matted hairs on the heel draw attention to the seat of the malady.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
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