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A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years
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A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, 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. (more info) gathering of humors, abscess, fr. abscessus, p. p. of absedere to go
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- ULCER
A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It - ULCERATION
The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer. - ABSCESS
A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years - PUSTULE
A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. Malignant pustule. See under Malignant. - ABSCESSION
A separating; removal; also, an abscess. Gauden. Barrough. - ULCERATED
Affected with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers; as, an ulcerated sore throat. - ULCERATIVE
Of or pertaining to ulcers; as, an ulcerative process. - ULCERABLE
Capable of ulcerating. - ULCERATE
To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous. - ULCERED
Ulcerous; ulcerated. - ULCEROUS
1. Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter. R. Browning. 2. Affected with an ulcer or ulcers; ulcerated. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. Shak. -- Ul"cer*ous*ly, adv. -- Ul"cer*ous*ness, n. - ADEN ULCER
A disease endemic in various parts of tropical Asia, due to a specific microörganism which produces chronic ulcers on the limbs. It is often fatal. Called also Cochin China ulcer, Persian ulcer, tropical ulcer, etc. - EXULCERATION
1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker. - EXULCERATORY
Having a tendency to form ulcers; rendering ulcerous. - EXULCERATIVE
Tending to cause ulcers; exulceratory. Holland. - EXULCERATE
1. To ulcerate. "To exulcerate the lungs." Evelyn. 2. To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame. Minds exulcerated in themselves. Hooker.