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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Pustulant :: Pustulant (v. t.) Producing pustules.
Areola :: Areola (n.) The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule..
Whelk :: Whelk (n.) A papule; a pustule; acne.
Phlyctenular :: Phlyctenular (a.) Characterized by the presence of small pustules, or whitish elevations resembling pustules; as, phlyctenular ophthalmia..
Fester :: Fester (n.) A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
Pock :: Pock (n.) A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.
Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox..
Pit :: Pit (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox..
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..
Ecthyma :: Ecthyma (n.) A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base..
Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules..
Scab :: Scab (n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part..
Quat :: Quat (n.) A pustule.
Pustulous :: Pustulous (a.) Resembling, or covered with, pustules; pustulate; pustular..
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..
Push :: Push (n.) A pustule; a pimple.
Pit :: Pit (v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox..
Empyesis :: Empyesis (n.) An eruption of pustules.
Pustulant :: Pustulant (n.) A medicine that produces pustules, as croton oil..
Smallpox :: Smallpox (n.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar..
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