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forme fruste
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forme (form) pl. formes   [Fr.] form.
forme fruste  (froost) pl. formes frustes   an atypical, especially a mild or incomplete, form, as of a disease.
forme tardive  (tahr-dēv´) a late-occurring form of a disease that usually appears at an earlier age.
forme fruste (fôrm frst, früst)
n. pl. formes frustes (fôrm frst, früst)
An incomplete, abortive, or unusual form of a syndrome or disease.
forme fruste
[fôrm′ frYst′, fôrm′ fro̅o̅st′] pl. formes frustes
Etymology: Fr, rough form
1 an incomplete or atypical form of a disease or a disease that is spontaneously arrested before it has run its usual course.
2 (in genetics) an inherited disorder in which there is minimal expression of an abnormal trait.
forme fruste
An aborted, attenuated, or atypical expression of a clinical entity or pathologic condition


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There are also many examples of stanzaic structure like the tercets that comprise Black Letter and the apparently incomplete poem of only two quatrains, Formes Frustes, where the incompletion exemplifies the title, and a set of pantoums called Mint in a Box.
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