زُكَامٌ

(S, Msb, K) and ↓ زَكْمَةٌ, (K,) or ↓ زُكْمَةٌ, with damm, (Msb,) [A coryza, or catarrhus ad nares; a rheum, in the most usual sense of the term, meaning a defluxion from the head, chiefly from the nose; commonly called a cold in the head;] a defluxion of redundant humour from the two anterior venters of the brain to the nostrils: (K:) well known: (S, Msb:) from زَكْمٌ meaning the act of “ filling. ” (TA.)