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Abscess   /ˈæbsˌɛs/   Listen
noun
Abscess  n.  (pl. abscesses)  (Med.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body caused by infection.
Cold abscess,
(a)
an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.
(b)
an abscess produced by tubercle bacilli, called also tuberculous abscess.





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"Abscess" Quotes from Famous Books



... inhumanity of the prison doctor and the English prison system that killed Oscar Wilde. The sore place in his ear caused by the fall when he fainted that Sunday morning in Wandsworth Prison chapel formed into an abscess and was the final cause of his death. The "operation" Ross speaks of in his letter was the excision of this tumour. The imprisonment and starvation, and above all the cruelty of his gaolers, had done ...
— Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris
... infected part of the body, such as a boil or abscess, should never be bruised or squeezed until the time of opening. Pressure tends to break down the wall of white corpuscles and to spread the infection. Pus from a sore contains germs and should not, on this account, come in contact with any part of the ...
— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.
... groups a dispute broke out between the players; they were reviling one another in no measured language, and their terms of abuse culminated in the term "strike-breaker." This made them perfectly furious. It was as though an abscess had broken; all their bottled-up shame and anger concerning their infamous position burst forth. They began to use knives and tools on one another. The police, who kept watch on the factory day and night, were called in, and restored tranquillity. A wounded smith was ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... muttered an apology for my rather rough behaviour, and at the same time I noticed upon the left side of his neck a deep scar probably left by an abscess. ...
— The Stretton Street Affair • William Le Queux
... or purulent secretion can visually be pressed out from between the papillomatous elevations. It may also present the appearance of a serpiginous lupus vulgaris or syphiloderm. As a rule it is slow in its course. Furuncular or abscess-like formations may develop, usually from secondary infection. The disease is due to the invasion of the ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon


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