The meaning of Abscess

noun

A small bubble on the skin filled with serum and caused by friction, burning, or other damage.

Usage examples:

His heels were covered in blisters

verb

Form blisters on the skin or other surface.

Usage examples:

The surface of the door began to blister

verb

(with reference to a liquid) reach or cause to reach the temperature at which it bubbles and turns to vapour.

Usage examples:

We asked people to boil their drinking water

noun

The temperature at which a liquid bubbles and turns to vapour.

Usage examples:

Bring the sauce to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes

noun

An inflamed pus-filled swelling on the skin, caused typically by the infection of a hair follicle.

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You can use them to treat sores, bruises, cuts, boils and inflammatory skin conditions.

noun

A destructive fungal disease of apple and other trees that results in damage to the bark.

Usage examples:

Cut out lesions on branches caused by canker

verb

(of a plant or part of a plant) become infected with canker.

Usage examples:

The tree is apt to canker in poor soils

noun

A severe abscess or multiple boil in the skin, typically infected with staphylococcus bacteria.

Usage examples:

It can be made into a salve or the tincture can be painted on boils, felons, carbuncles, abscesses,…

noun

A large painful swelling under the skin

noun

A thin-walled hollow organ or cavity in an animal or plant, containing a liquid secretion; a sac, vesicle, or bladder.

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In the lumen of the cysts, eosinophilic or blue secretions were frequently seen, with sometimes tar…

noun

A round growth under the skin or deeper in the body, containing liquid or tissue

noun

An act or instance of erupting.

Usage examples:

The eruption of vesuvius

noun

An occasion when a volcano explodes, and flames and rocks come out of it, or the act of doing this

Usage examples:

A volcanic eruption, around the year 600, the eruption of a nearby volcano buried ceren's buildings…

noun

Technical term for boil2.

noun

The process of infecting or the state of being infected.

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Strict hygiene will limit the risk of infection

noun

A condition in which bacteria or viruses that cause disease have entered the body

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A serious infection, a throat infection, risk of infection bandage the wound to reduce the risk of …

noun

A localized physical condition in which part of the body becomes reddened, swollen, hot, and often painful, especially as a reaction to injury or infection.

Usage examples:

Steroid injections can have a dramatic effect in reducing inflammation and relieving pain

noun

A red, painful, and often swollen area in or on a part of your body

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Aspirin reduces pain and inflammation., an inflammation of the eye/toe/ear

noun

A small pimple or swelling on the skin, often forming part of a rash.

Usage examples:

In patients with the malar rash of systemic lupus erythematosus, papules may be present, but pustul…

noun

A small hard inflamed spot on the skin.

Usage examples:

He had a pimple at the corner of his mouth

noun

A small, raised spot on the skin

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A pimply teenager

noun

A spot or pimple.

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The man with the chronic plooks

noun

A small blister or pimple on the skin containing pus.

Usage examples:

Lesions consist of erythematous papules, nodules, pustules, verrucous, or granulomatous lesions.

noun

A small raised area on the skin that contains pus (= thick liquid)

adjective

(of a part of one's body) painful or aching.

Usage examples:

She had a sore throat

noun

A raw or painful place on the body.

Usage examples:

All of us had sores and infections on our hands

adverb

Extremely; severely.

Usage examples:

They were sore afraid

noun

A small round or roundish mark, differing in colour or texture from the surface around it.

Usage examples:

Ladybirds have black spots on their red wing covers

verb

Short for spotlight.

verb

A point located with respect to surface features of some region

noun

An open sore on an external or internal surface of the body, caused by a break in the skin or mucous membrane which fails to heal. ulcers range from small, painful sores in the mouth to bedsores and serious lesions of the stomach or intestine.

Usage examples:

A common form of mouth ulcer, canker sores occur in women more often than in men.

noun

A sore on the skin or inside the body that will not heal without treatment

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A stomach ulcer

noun

The formation of an ulcer or ulcers.

Usage examples:

All of the patients had a history of foot ulceration caused by diabetes

noun

The process of forming an ulcer or ulcers

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Ulceration of the bowel, mouth ulceration

noun

A boil or other swelling or growth on the skin, especially a sebaceous cyst.

Usage examples:

Throughout the sermon that morning, inman sat staring at ada's neck and listening as monroe repeate…

noun

Old-fashioned spelling of wynn.

noun

An abscess in the soft tissue near a fingernail or toenail.

Usage examples:

Herpetic whitlow is an hsv infection of the fingers and toes and may represent a primary infection …