pustularadj.
/ˈpʌstjᵿlə/, /ˈpʌstʃᵿlə/, U.S. /ˈpəstʃələr/ 1. Medicine. Characterized by or affected with pustules; of or relating to pustules; of the nature of a pustule.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > abscess > boil > pustule
pustulate?a1425
pustuled?a1425
whey-wormeda1529
pustulous1543
pustulent1607
pustulated1666
pustular1716
whelky1822
psydracious1829
phlyzacious1830
papulopustular1843
pustuliform1846
pustulant1895
1716 E. Strother Criticon Febrium 133 Here I shall crave Leave for a small Digression on the Pustular Fever in 1710, which was epidemical, and very fatal.
1744 Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 668 Many pustular and scaly Eruptions appeared all over him.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 256 I differ in opinion from Dr. Jenner in not imputing the pustular eruptions..to any adulteration of the vaccine matter employed in the inoculations.
1878 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) ii. iv. 572 Petechial or pustular rashes.
1893 Lancet 18 Feb. 362/2 Fresh lesions evolved for two or three days and then abortive pustular lesions till the twenty-fifth day.
1911 Trans. S. Afr. Med. Congr.: 12th Meeting 165 The so-called ‘white head’, so often seen in Bechuanaland..is a pustular syphilide affecting the scalp.
1968 H. O. Mackey & J. P. Mackey Handbk. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) xiii. 114 Differential diagnosis must be made from:—pustular psoriasis, acrodermatitis perstans, pustular bacterides.., moniliasis and arsenical hyperkeratosis.
2005 Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 26/3 He rails against pustular shop-assistants, the annoyances of chip-and-pin, and a thousand and one irritations of modern life and long-term coupledom.
2. Botany and Zoology. = pustulate adj. 2.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > protuberance or lump > [adjective] > having protuberances
knoppy1562
gouty1597
warted1681
grumous1688
bunched1776
papulose1776
pustular1792
papulous1797
verrucose1802
grained1818
nodulated1824
verrucous1828
graniform1830
pustulatous moss1856
papuliferous1857
1792 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 2) III. 393 Sphæria fraxinea. Black; roundish, convex, dotted... Nearly sitting, pustular.
1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 577 Lower lvs. [of Pelargonium pustulosum] deeply 3-lobed beneath pustular.
1894 W. Somerville & H. M. Ward tr. R. Hartig Text-bk. Dis. Trees 308 The cortex shows pustular swellings.
1901 N. S. Shaler Individual 40 In the Surinam toad the eggs are placed on the back of the male when they enter the skin, forming pustular structures wherein the embryo perhaps obtains some nutriment from the parent.
1931 Science 19 June 672/2 Shield [of an ostracoderm]..; inner surface divided into large, well-marked polygonal areas, with corresponding pustular elevations externally.
1990 New Phytologist 114 576/2 The thick leaves of this low, shrubby species..appear somewhat misshapen because of the large, bulging pustular cavities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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