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An acute, diffuse, and suppurative inflammation of loose connective tissue, particularly the deep subcutaneous tissues, and sometimes muscle, which is most commonly seen as a result of infection of a wound, ulcer, or other skin lesions.

Acute suppurative inflammation of the subcutaneous connective tissue.

An inflammatory tumour.

Inflammation; inflamed or inflammatory tumour.

Inflammation of the areolar texture accompanied with redness, circumscribed swelling, increased heat and pain; which is, at first, tensive and lancinating; afterwards, pulsatory and heavy. It is apt to terminate in suppuration. It requires the anti-phlogistic treatment, until suppuration seems inevitable, when the suppuration must be encouraged as the next favourable termination to resolution.

Inflammation of connective tissue, leading to ulcer or abscess.

A local inflammation giving rise to and characterized by a mass of exudate, whether it ends in supuration or not. [Gr.]