abscess (noun)
11abscess — ab|scess [ æb,ses ] noun count a painful swollen area on your skin or inside your body that is infected and filled with PUS (=unpleasant yellow liquid) …
12abscess — [ˈæbses] noun [C] a painful swollen area on your skin or inside your body …
13abscess — /ˈæbsəs / (say absuhs), /ˈæbsɛs/ (say abses) noun a localised collection of pus in a cavity, caused by disintegration of body tissue, often accompanied by swelling and inflammation and usually caused by bacteria. {Latin abscessus a going away}… …
14peritonsillar abscess — noun a painful pus filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis • Syn: ↑quinsy • Hypernyms: ↑angina * * * |perə+... noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary peri + tonsillar …
15cold abscess — noun A chronic abscess, that forms slowly, without pain, heat or inflammation …
16cold abscess — noun : a chronic often tuberculous abscess of slow formation and with little evidence of inflammation …
17amebic abscess — noun : a specific purulent invasive lesion commonly of the liver caused by parasitic amoebas especially of the common species (Endamoeba histolytica) …
18quinsy — noun /ˈkwɪnzi/ A painful pus filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues, usually a complication of tonsillitis, caused by bacterial infection and often accompanied by fever. , 1891: Hed had the quinsy and swollen glands …
19abscessed tooth — noun an abscess of a common kind in the tissue around a tooth • Hypernyms: ↑abscess …
20aposteme — noun ( s) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin apostema, from Greek apostēma abscess, distance, from aphistanai to remove more at apostasy obsolete …
