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Aposteme
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
See
apostem
.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
An
abscess
; a
pustulent
swelling.
Word Usage
"A dysentery, when stopped, will give rise to an aposteme, or tumor, if it do not terminate in fevers with sweats, or with thick and white urine, or in a tertian fever, or the pain fix upon a varix, or the testicles, or on the hip-joints."
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
abscess
variant
imposthume