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spec. An accumulation of purulent matter in any part of the body; a suppurated swelling.
Medicine. An accumulation or collection (of matter). Obsolete. rare.
A boil, an abscess, a pimple; an ulcer; a large blister.
Suppuration; a ‘gathering’; a boil.
A localized collection of pus; an abscess or boil; (also, as a mass noun) pus, purulent material.