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Pustule   Listen
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Pustule  n.  (Med.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus.
Malignant pustule. See under Malignant.






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"Pustule" Quotes from Famous Books



... town in which she lived; she was the first attacked. Two boils formed, one under her arm, the other above the heart. 'Two boils, it is well,' she said to the Lord, 'but three would be better in honour of the Holy Trinity,' and immediately a third pustule broke out on ...
— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

... and For. Med. Review for October, 1845, and January, 1847.—Affection of the arm, resembling malignant pustule, after removing the placenta of a patient who died from puerperal fever. Reference to cases at Wurzburg, as proving contagion, and to Keiller's cases in the Monthly Journal for February, 1846, as showing connection of puerperal fever ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



Words linked to "Pustule" :   blister, zit, malignant pustule, pustulate, pock, pimple, bulla, bleb, hickey



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