pustule
Example Sentences
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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
Then, once the patient developed a cowpox lesion—a pustule that took about a week to form— the physician would scrape pus from the first patient’s lesion into another patient’s incision.
From Slate • Sep. 2, 2020
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
Druzmilla added, “Yeah. That little pustule loves the taste of trash. That’s what she’s after. Snacks.”
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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