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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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34 words match “PUSTULE”

A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. Malignant pustule. See under Malignant.

A malignant pustule.

The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.

A small inflammatory tumor; a pustule. [Prov. Eng.]

An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson.

A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.

CONFLUENT a. 2 definitions

Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.

A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. Dunglison.

An eruption of pustules.

A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharge corrupt matter; a pustule.

o produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule (Med.), a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealth…

back and forth along a spirally grooved drill holder. -- Persian fire (Med.), malignant pustule. -- Persian powder. See Insect powder, under Insect. -- Persian red. See Indian red (a), under Indian. -- Persian wheel, a noria; a tympanum. See Noria.

PHLYCTENULAR a.

Characterized by the presence of small pustules, or whitish elevations resembling pustules; as, phlyctenular ophthalmia.

PIT n. 2 definitions

The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.

A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases. Of pokkes and of scab every sore. Chaucer.

Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.

A pustule; a pimple. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bacon.

PUSTULANT a. 2 definitions

Producing pustules. -- n.

PUSTULAR a. 2 definitions

1. Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.