pustule

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Each pustule contains live virus, and a ruptured blister can contaminate bed linens and other items, putting close contacts at risk.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2022

BCG often causes a pustule at the injection site that may persist for months, usually resulting in a scar.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 23, 2020

Hence he was born to perform “Haircut,” a cinder-black vignette of small-town life told by a deceptively cheerful barber who is in truth a walking pustule of malice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2018

In 1796, Jenner took pus from a cowpox pustule on the hand of an infected milkmaid and injected it into the arm of an 8-year-old boy.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2017

The Clabbert’s most distinctive feature is the large pustule in the middle of its forehead, which turns scarlet and flashes when it senses danger.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling