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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A localized collection of pus in part of the body, formed by tissue disintegration and surrounded by an inflamed area.
  2. v. To form an abscess.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In medicine, a collection of pus in the tissues of any part of the body.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To form a pus filled cavity typically from an infection.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue

Etymologies

  1. Latin abscessus, separation, abscess, from past participle of abscēdere, to go away, slough, form an abscess (possibly translation of Greek apostēma, distance, abscess, from aphistasthai, to withdraw, slough, form an abscess) : ab-, away; see ab-1 + cēdere, to go. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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