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FURUNCLE

\fjˈʊ͡əɹʌŋkə͡l], \fjˈʊ‍əɹʌŋkə‍l], \f_j_ˈʊə_ɹ_ʌ_ŋ_k_əl]\

Definitions of FURUNCLE

2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language

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An infection where furuncles are present over a period of weeks to months. Species of STAPHYLOCOCCUS are usually the causative agents.

2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

Furunculus, boil.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

A boll.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

A superficial inflammatory tumour suppurating with a central core; a boil.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

A boil; a painful cutaneous sore enclosing a core or slough.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

Syn.: boil. An acute inflammatory process around a follicle of the skin, produced by infection through the follicle and resulting, usually, in necrosis and suppuration of the central mass. [Lat.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

A bile, an angry pustule.

1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Sheridan

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