Definition of pustule

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Pustule (n.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus..

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Fester :: Fester (n.) A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
Pox :: Pox (n.) Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases..
Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules..
Pustulate :: Pustulate (v. t.) To form into pustules, or blisters..
Pustulation :: Pustulation (n.) The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.
Pit :: Pit (v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox..
Charbon :: Charbon (n.) A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule..
Areola :: Areola (n.) The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule..
Wheal :: Wheal (n.) A pustule; a whelk.
Blotch :: Blotch (a.) A large pustule, or a coarse eruption..
Pit :: Pit (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox..
Scab :: Scab (n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part..
Anthrax :: Anthrax (n.) A malignant pustule.
Push :: Push (n.) A pustule; a pimple.
Welk :: Welk (n.) A pustule. See 2d Whelk.
Phlyctenular :: Phlyctenular (a.) Characterized by the presence of small pustules, or whitish elevations resembling pustules; as, phlyctenular ophthalmia..
Pustulant :: Pustulant (n.) A medicine that produces pustules, as croton oil..
Empyesis :: Empyesis (n.) An eruption of pustules.
Sibbens :: Sibbens (n.) A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch..
Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox..
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