furuncle
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The immediate result was a large furuncle under the arm and the affliction for which I was consulted.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
If I ventured to express myself so I might say that in this case at least the osteomyelitis was really a furuncle of the bone marrow.
From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various
On June thirteenth I made cultures of the pus from a furuncle of this man.
From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various
The following days, the blood from the finger remained absolutely sterile: but that obtained from the center of the forming furuncle gave an abundant growth of the same small organism as before.
From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various
It generally includes also various sorts of d�bris—broken-down epithelium, blood-corpuscles, pus-corpuscles, and even, in rare cases, a core of sphacelated tissue like that of a furuncle.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various