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abscess

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
abscess/ˈabses/

▶noun a swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus.

– derivatives
abscessed adjective.

– origin C16: from L. abscessus, from abscedere, from ab- ‘away from’ + cedere ‘go’.

'abscess' also found in these Oxford entries:

carbuncle - gumboil - maturate - maturation - pyaemia - quinsy - warble - whitlow

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