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abscess

[ab-ses] / ˈæb sɛs /
NOUN
swelling
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Aleisha Rochester, 33, a bank cashier from Croydon, south London, died two weeks after undergoing a routine procedure to remove an abscess from her left armpit.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

Alas, we’ll never know what Leni might have achieved as talking pictures staked their claim, for a tooth abscess went septic and killed him at age 44 in 1929.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

You didn’t die of a tooth abscess that turned into sepsis.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2024

In 2023, the singer revealed that Iron Maiden had helped him pay medical bills for treatment of a lung abscess, saying that he would be “forever grateful for that.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2024

She examined him, observed his fever, his red eyes, his jaundice, his abdominal pain, and came up with nothing definite, but wondered if he had gallstones or a liver abscess.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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