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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