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Of pain or disease: To establish itself in or on a definite part of the body.
intransitive. Medicine. To be or become established or active at a particular location within the body.
intransitive. Medicine. Of disease, inflammation, etc.: to form, become confined to, or arise in a focus (focus, n. 4); to localize. Occasionally…