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abscess

[ab-ses] / ˈæb sɛs /
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Indeed there were: some 320 towns in Byelorussia alone bore names like Roofless, Slobsville and Dirt; Abscess, Deviltry and Grief.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes again, an Abscess is formed either in the affected Part, or in some neighbouring one.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

But the following Signs may enable him to discover that there is an Abscess, viz.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

These remarks apply well to what I have to say on Abscess and Fistula at the terminal portion of the intestinal canal.

From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton)

Abscess in the occipital lobe produces interference with the visual functions.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander




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