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ABSCESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("abscess" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Meronyms (parts of "abscess"):

head (the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates))

purulence; purulency (symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abscess"):

abscessed tooth (an abscess of a common kind in the tissue around a tooth)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb abscess

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 Context examples: 

This can lead to infertility, ectopic pregnancy, pelvic pain, abscesses, and other serious problems.

(Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

P. asaccharolyticus is commensal to the human intestinal tract but has been associated with genital tract, lung, skin, and brain abscesses.

(Peptoniphilus asaccharolyticus, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a derivative of marginal periodontitis and commonly associated with suprabony and infrabony pockets and interradicular involvements, in contrast to periapical abscess which is attributable to pulp necrosis.

(Periodontal Abscess, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

P. bettyae was isolated from human Bartholin gland abscesses and finger infections.

(Pasteurella bettyae, NCI Thesaurus)

Diseases affecting or involving the PARANASAL SINUSES and generally manifesting as inflammation, abscesses, cysts, or tumors.

(Paranasal Sinus Disorder, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Representative examples include axillary lymphadenitis and axillary abscess.

(Non-Neoplastic Axillary Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, thyroiditis, and thyroid gland abscess.

(Non-Neoplastic Thyroid Gland Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Few mice that continued to form lesions had developed bacterial abscesses in their abdomens — infections that most likely arose due to the abdominal drug injections.

(Researchers connect brain blood vessel lesions to intestinal bacteria, NIH)

A form of ACTINOMYCOSIS characterized by slow-growing inflammatory lesions of the lymph nodes that drain the mouth (lumpy jaw), reddening of the overlying skin, and intraperitoneal abscesses.

(Cervicofacial Actinomycotic Infection, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

You can get an abscess almost anywhere in your body.

(Abscess, NIH)