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单词 abscess
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abscessn.

Brit. /ˈabsɪs/, /ˈabsɛs/, U.S. /ˈæbˌsɛs/
Forms:

α. 1500s absessus, 1500s–1600s abscessus.

β. 1500s–1600s abscesse, 1600s– abscess.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin abscēssus.
Etymology: < classical Latin abscēssus departure, withdrawal, absence, going away, (in medical writers) congestion, circumscribed collection of pus or purulent debris (Celsus) < abscēdere abscede v. + -tus , suffix forming nouns. The specific medical sense of the Latin noun is perhaps after ancient Greek ἀπόστημα aposteme n. Compare Middle French abscès, Middle French, French abcès (1537 in a medical context; 17th cent. in figurative use).
Medicine.
A circumscribed collection of pus or purulent debris, typically caused by a localized bacterial infection; †the formation of such a lesion (obsolete). Later also: a circumscribed area of liquefactive necrosis within an organ. Frequently attributive. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.cold, liver abscess, etc.: see the first element.
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1543 B. Traheron Interpr. Straunge Wordes in tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. sig. ζζ.ii/2 Aposteme..In latyne it is called abscessus.]
1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes sig. T v A foremessanger or way-maker to Feuers, Apostumations and Abscesses.
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. ii. 202 There is also a kinde of apostema, that is, of abscessus, wherin are other thinges conteyned, which do represent not onely the proprieties of humours.
1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. vi. i. sig. R4 Wounds in the head, if after x. daies symptons do happen, signifie abscesse in the liuer.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 415 The purulent matter of the Chest is by Nature euacuated..lastly by Apostemation or abcesse.
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate sig. Gg4 Abscessus, a bile, or a botch in the guts.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician v. 139 When the Ecchymoma..was just turning to an Abscess, I opened it.
1702 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1185 In Bruises when the Blood is extravassated, it goes off either by Transcolation or else causes an Abscess.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 336 The Inflammation ends in a Suppuration and an Abscess in the Lungs.
1785 E. Sheridan Let. in Betsy Sheridan's Jrnl. (1986) ii. 68 Mr Erskine has been confined with abscesses that have form'd in his cheek and throat.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 604/2 Few or no abscesses granulate till they are exposed.
1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) iv. 89 It was averred that vaccinated children became ‘ox-faced’, that abscesses broke out to ‘indicate sprouting horns’.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxiii. 375 The whole breadth of the abscess cavity, which he [sc. Zancarol] mops out and stuffs with iodoform gauze.
a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Is He Dead? (2003) iii. 106 The man's a mere moral abscess.
1932 H. Ashton Bricks & Mortar vi. 112 An attack of measles, with aural complications and a mastoid abscess, cut two terms out of the boy′s schooling.
1975 A. Price Our Man in Camelot ix. 160 You're starting an abscess. There's a swelling on the gum.
2002 J. Cunliffe Encycl. Dog Breeds (new ed.) 56/1 An abscess is very painful and in long-coated breeds may go undetected until it has reached an advanced stage.
2005 New Yorker 2 May 56/2 It is a dente cariato , a rotten tooth—an abscess in Rome's idea of its own perfection.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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