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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
furuncle /ˈfjʊərʌŋk(ə)l/

▶noun technical term for boil2.

– derivatives
furuncular adjective,
furunculous adjective.

– origin ME: from L. furunculus, lit. ‘petty thief’, also ‘knob on a vine’ (regarded as stealing the sap), from fur ‘thief’.

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