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abscesses
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n. (plural of abscess English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: abscess )
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abscess \Ab"scess\, n.; pl. Abscesses . [L. abscessus a going away, gathering of humors, abscess, fr. abscessus, p. p. of absedere to go away; ab, abs + cedere to go off, retire. See Cede .] (Med.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or ...
Usage examples of abscesses.
Ingleby gives another series of seven eases which occurred to a practitioner in 1836, the first of which was also attributed to his having opened several erysipelatous abscesses a short time previously.
The third mate told me in Honolulu that the 'Portyghee' had lain in his hammock for months, raising his family of abscesses and feeding like a cannibal.
The puerperal abscesses are also contagious, and may be communicated to healthy lying-in women by washing with the same sponge.