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purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.

A separating; removal; also, an abscess. [Obs.] Gauden. Barrough.

Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.

To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. Wiseman.

An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter. [Written corruptly imposthume.]

Abscess of the mammary gland.

Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8. Cold abscess. See under Abscess. -- Cold blast See under Blast, n., 2. Cold blood. See under Blood, n., 8. -- Cold chill, an ague fit. Wright. -- Cold chisel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal. Weale. -- Cold cream. See under Cream. -- Cold slaw…

artial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess. Cupping glass, a glass cup in which a partial vacuum is produced by heat, in the process of cupping. -- Dry cupping, the application of a cupping instrument without scarification, to draw blood to the surface, produce co…

The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc. Drainage tube (Surg.), a tube introduced into a wound, etc., to draw off the discharges.

Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess.

t abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula. Incomplete fistula (Med.), a fistula open at one end only.…

A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

To apostemate; to form an imposthume or abscess. Arbuthnot.

The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration.

A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.

Not ripened or suppurated; -- said of an abscess or its contents.

To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.

various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.

ed from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance.

To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).