abscess
pronunciation
How to pronounce abscess in British English:
UK [ˈæbses]
How to pronounce abscess in American English:
US [ˈæbˌsɛs]
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- Noun:
- symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
Word Origin
- abscess
- abscess: [16] Abscess comes, via French abcès, from Latin abscessus, a noun derived from abscēdere ‘go away’. The constituent parts of this compound verb are abs ‘away’ and cēdere ‘go’, which has given English cede and a whole range of other words, such as accede and recede. The notion linking ‘abscesses’ and ‘going away’ was that impure or harmful bodily humours were eliminated, or ‘went away’, via the pus that gathered in abscesses.It originated amongst the Greeks, who indeed had a word for it: apostema. This meant literally ‘separation’ (apo ‘away’ and histánai ‘stand’), and Latin abscessus was an approximate translation of it, possibly by Aulus Cornelius Celsus, the Roman writer on medical and other matters.=> accede, cede, recede
- abscess (n.)
- 1610s, from Latin abscessus "an abscess" (Celsus), literally "a going away," from stem of abscedere "withdraw, depart, retire," from ab- "away" (see ab-) + cedere "to go" (see cede). The notion is that humors "go from" the body through the pus in the swelling.
Synonym
Example
- 1. A liver abscess will require tube drainage and antibiotics to cure .
- 2. After six weeks , an x-ray showed the abscess had shrunk down to a stable and probably permanent scar on jerry 's lung .
- 3. And if you want a mobile phone subscription or you have an infected abscess and need antibiotics they may be right .
- 4. Adding to my surprise was the fact that jerry had none of the risk factors associated with a lung abscess .
- 5. Patients who have had a surgical procedure in which the liver bile duct has been connected to a loop of bowel are at much greater risk of developing a liver abscess after ablation .