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Axungia logo #10101) Animal fat product
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Axungia

Axungia logo #21000 Axungia is a kind of soft animal fat, usually from around the kidneys of geese or pigs, used in pre-modern western medicine. It differs from lard, which is firm, and suet or adeps, which is dry. The Ancient Romans distinguished fat into pinguedo or axungia, and adeps or servum; but writers often interchange the terms. In pre-modern medicine, physi...
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