abscessed
pronunciation
How to pronounce abscessed in British English:
UK ['æbsɪst]
How to pronounce abscessed in American English:
US ['æbsɪst]
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- Adjective:
- infected and filled with pus
Word Origin
- abscessed (adj.)
- 1846, in medicine, from abscess (n.).
Example
- 1. Byers ` brain was also abscessed and holes were forming in his skull .
- 2. He has a abscessed throat and a airless adenoids .
- 3. The ordinary kinds of acne : whitehead , blackhead , abscessed acne , inflammatory acne and assembled acne .
- 4. An abscessed boillike swelling on the back of cattle , deer , and certain other animals , caused by the larva of a warble fly .
- 5. By 1945 , this abscessed condition of the chinese people burst forth once more in renewed civil war and quickly thereafter passed over into revolution .