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fomite

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fomite

Summary

fomite ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (282 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • fomite's subclass of is recorded as vector[2].
  • fomite's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D050456[3].
  • fomite's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/065_1hr[4].
  • fomite's MeSH tree code is recorded as N06.850.520.203.250.500[5].
  • fomite's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/fomite[6].
  • fomite's has effect is recorded as vehicle-borne fomite transmission[7].
  • fomite's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00010358[8].
  • fomite's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1008855[9].
  • fomite's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as fomites[10].
  • fomite's Environment Ontology ID is recorded as 00010358[11].
  • fomite's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 134731[12].
  • fomite's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject COVID-19[13].
  • fomite's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09306099-n[14].

Why It Matters

fomite ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (282 views/month).[1] fomite has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] fomite is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). fomite. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/fomite
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_fomite_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{fomite}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/fomite}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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