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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



... well, it was noted that several members had attacks of "boils" during the voyage southward; in Adelie Land during 1912 there were two instances of acute abscesses on the fingers (whitlows) and one jaw abscess. It appears as if, with its new and unbounded energy of function, the body attempts to throw oft its waste products. Then, too, experimental observations of opsonic index pointed towards the lowering of resistance, and, by the way, it was rather a remarkable fact that after a few months in Adelie ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson
... he had a private grudge against authority; if he befriended the wife and family of a distressed Republican, he only sought to gratify his lust; if he spent a convivial hour with a friend, he was an inveterate drunkard; and if he contracted a malignant abscess by lying for months in a damp, unwholesome dungeon, his sufferings were the nemesis of a wicked, ...
— Flowers of Freethought - (First Series) • George W. Foote
... the cure's household gave an old cap that the cure had worn to a poor woman, as an alms. The beautiful thought came to her: "The holy cure is a saint. If I have faith, my child will be cured." The boy had an abscess on the head. She put the cap on him. That evening, when she uncovered him to dress the wound, she found that the sore had disappeared. ...
— The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Cur of Ars • Anonymous
... brain and cord; these membranes are called "meninges," hence the name "cerebrospinal meningitis." Within a short time after their entrance pus is produced, and the condition becomes practically one of abscess around ...
— Health on the Farm - A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene • H. F. Harris
... thick covering of Cataplasma Kaolini (U. S. P.) may be applied until the inflammation has subsided. If the trouble is chronic, or the acute inflammation does not soon abate under the treatment advised, the case is one for the surgeon, and sometimes requires the knife for abscess formation. In the milder cases of bunion, wearing proper shoes whose inner border forms almost a straight line from heel to toe, so that the great toe is not pushed over toward the little toe, and painting the ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) • Various


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