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Skin swelling
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pustule
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French pustule (13c.) and directly from Latin pustula "blister, pimple," from PIE imitative root *pu- (1) "blow, swell," on notion of "inflated area" (cognates: Sanskrit pupphusah "lung," Greek physa "breath, blast, wind, bubble," Lithuanian ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A small accumulation of pus in the epidermis or dermis. 2 A pimple filled with pus.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Avicenna claimed it caused melancholia, and Rhazes cautioned that it inflamed the blood and caused pustules in the mouth. ▪ It was covered in weeping pustules and had been isolated from the group. ▪ The broken pustules then burned ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pustule \Pus"tule\ (?; 135), n. [L. pustula, and pusula: cf. F. pustule.] (Med.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. Malignant pustule . See under Malignant .
Usage examples of pustule.
It sprawled over the landscape like a vast, bleeding pustule on the face of the earth, sickening the land, and poisoning all who lived in it.
It is contained in the pustules, and in the excretions and exhalations of affected individuals.
The pustules contain serous lymph, which exudes if the cuticle be broken, and forms a crust at the summit of the pustule.
The pustules are only present in the severest forms or when the skin is very thin and tender.
Very long because, during it, she had heard every tick of the clock, and felt the budding of every pox-pustule, its growth as it peeled layers of skin asunder a slow steady agony that sparked whenever two pustules found each other and fused.
In the worst cases, the rash spread from head to toe, pustules overlapping one another in plates all down the body.
He could tell by the way the pustules were running together on his other patients that the shire had been afflicted with confluent smallpox, far more dangerous than the ordinary form.
The offensive odor of the dried pustules remained in her senses, but to her it was the sweetest scent.
Craigmillar, he started up in bed, so that the taffeta slipped from his face, and it was with difficulty that she dissembled the loathing with which the sight of its pustules inspired her.
Foul pustules erupted like diminutive volcanoes, only to subside and reappear elsewhere.
For good measure he also said over the exorcism against the various pustules, poisons, and the food that returns after being eaten.
Beneath him, near the base of the growth, the protruding nodules that had provided precarious footing for his ascent were inflating alarmingly, like so many infected pustules on the skin of a dermatically challenged giant.
There was also evidence of an appalling skin disease that had left the face raw and weeping, with crusts of small pustules nesting around the eyes, nose and mouth.
His face was black and swollen, pustules on his forehead, his hair a mop of little medallions of filth.
It had tried to take the form of an old gentleman, but it was covered in rancid pustules and hideous deformities, with bent back and irregular gait.