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abscess
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A foot abscess had cast doubts on the colt's participation in the Epsom Classic on Wednesday week. ▪ A tame rabbit was brought in with a large abscess about the size of an egg on its cheek. ▪ He told me that was why I had the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 abscess.
Brodie reports the history of a case in a negress who voided a fetus from an abscess at the navel about the seventeenth month of conception.
It was found that the womb had been ruptured and the child killed, for in several days it was delivered in a putrid mass, partly through the natural passage and partly through an abscess opening in the abdominal wall.
Autenreith mentions metastasis of milk through an abdominal abscess to the thigh, and Balthazaar also mentions excretion of milk from the thigh.
Knackstedt has seen an abscess of the thigh which contained eight pounds of milk.
In the second case, in a youth of sixteen, death occurred after washing out a deep abscess of the nates with the same solution.
A boy, suffering from abscess under the trochanter, was operated on for its relief.
Nicholson mentions a case of ulceration and abscess of the nostrils and face from which maggots were discharged.
To his surprise, thirty years afterward, one of the teeth was removed from an abscess of the tongue.
Volgnarius has seen a grain of wheat make its exit from the axilla, and Polisius mentions an abscess of the back from which was extracted a grain of wheat three months after ingestion.
Bally reports a somewhat similar instance, in which, three months after ingestion, during an attack of peripneumonia, a foreign body was extracted from an abscess of the thorax, between the 2d and 3d ribs.
At the autopsy it was found that an abscess communicating with the trachea had been formed in the pharynx and esophagus.
Gross speaks of a man of thirty who was in the habit of giving exhibitions of sword-swallowing in public houses, and who injured his esophagus to such an extent as to cause abscess and death.
On the twenty-sixth day an abscess formed on the left side below the nipple, and from it was discharged a large quantity of pus and blood.
Desgranges gives a case of a fish-spine in the abdominal cavity, and ten years afterward it ulcerated through an abscess in the abdominal wall.
It was not until adult life that from an abscess of the groin was expelled what remained of the spelling-book that had been driven into the abdomen during boyhood.