abscessed
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
abscessed
- simple past and past participle of abscess
Adjective[edit]
abscessed (comparative more abscessed, superlative most abscessed)
- (medicine) Affected by an abscess. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
- The sore was abscessed and filled with pus.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
of an abscess
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References[edit]
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abscessed”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.