carbuncle

• It was a huge carbuncle, a ruby said to be as large as a hen's egg, which glowed fiery red as the light caught it. —  EQMM, July 2005
• No other city in England enjoys as spectacular a situation as Bristol, the West Country's carbuncle-ridden but undeniably charismatic capital. —  Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk
• The crucial incision for carbuncle is a typical example of the first class and the suggestion of the removal of superfluous fat from within the abdomen or in the abdominal wall itself by operation is another. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
• Of the first, the curved surfaces, opaque and translucent stones, such as the moonstone, cat's-eye, etc., are mostly cut en cabochon_, that is, dome-shaped or semi-circular at the top, flat on the underside, and when the garnet is so cut it is called a carbuncle. —  The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
• The ancient Greeks called it anthrax, which name is sometimes used in medicine to-day with reference to the severe boil-like inflammation which, from its burning and redness, is called a carbuncle, though it is more usual to apply the word "anthrax" to the malignant cattle-disease which is occasionally passed on to man by means of wool, hair, blood-clots, etc., etc., and almost always ends fatally. —  The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones

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