pustule

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  1. noun A small inflamed elevation of the skin that is filled with pus; a pimple.
  2. noun A small swelling similar to a blister or pimple.
  3. noun Something likened to an inflamed, pus-filled lesion: "a cool glimpse of green between hot pustules of sooty sprawl” (Nicholas Proffitt).

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  • Even as he reached the basement stairs, the silence burst like a pustule and noise erupted into the night Howard! —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 05 - May 1994
  • The Kept ached like a pustule, as did the thing in Eslen-of-Shadows, but that rushed suddenly away as the darkness shattered and she found herself in a forest clearing. —  THE BLOOD KNIGHT
  • He's already become more pustule, than man as it is. —  Riehl World View
  • Wheat Rust Pustule - Captured exploding from the leaf of a wheat plant, this pustule is the result of an infection by the fungus Wheat Rust Spermogonia - Wheat rust, a plant disease affecting wheat in the United States and in other wheat-growing areas of the world, is caused by a parasitic fungus.
  • The strap which passes over the back of the hand inoculated an abrasion on the knuckle of the first finger, and in 12 hours a "pustule" had formed and the arm had become infected Symptoms._--The symptoms of anthrax usually develop with extreme rapidity. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pustula, blister.

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  1. = French pustule = Spanish pústula = Portuguese pustula = Italian pustula, pustola, from Latin pustula, a blister, pimple, pustule; cf. pusula, a bubble, blister, pimple; perhaps akin to Greek φυσαλίς, φυσαλλίς, a bladder: see physalis.
 

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