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abscess

US/ˈæbsɛs/

abscess noun: a cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.

abscess: a cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded...
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Noun

abscess (plural abscesses)

  1. A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.

Verb

abscess (third-person singular simple present abscesses, present participle abscessing, simple past and past participle abscessed)

  1. (intransitive) To form a pus-filled cavity, typically from an infection.

abscess meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

abscess in Hindi

cavity filled with pus
विद्रधि vidradhi

abscess in Tamil

சீழ்பிடித்த கட்டி

abscess in Urdu

دنبل, پھوڑا

abscess in Bengali

ফোঁড়া, পুঁজজমা
More languagesFewer languages
abscess in Telugu
విద్రధి vidradhi
abscess in Malayalam
കുരു kuru
abscess in Kannada
ಕುರು, ಕೀದುಣ್ಣು
abscess in Gujarati
ફોલ્લો phollo
abscess in Tagalog
naknak, pigsa, bagâ, abseso
abscess in Arabic
دُمَّل dummal, خُرَاج ḵurāj, خُرَّاج ḵurrāj
abscess in Malay
bisul, abses
abscess in Indonesian
abses
abscess in Persian
دمل domal, آبسه âbse
abscess in Vietnamese
áp-xe

Examples of abscess in a sentence

  • Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.
  • These complications consisted of severe cholangitis, large abscesses and sepsis, and portal venous or mesentericoportal venous thrombosis.
  • A diagnosis of necrotic pulp with chronic periradicular abscess was made.

All 26 example sentences with abscess

Forms of abscess

Noun
pluralabscesses
Verb
third-person singular presentabscesses
present participleabscessing
past participleabscessed
pastabscessed

Plural of abscess: abscesses

Origin of abscess

Borrowed from Latin abscessus (“a going away; gathering of humors, abscess”), from abscēdō (“go away, depart”), from abs (“away from”) + cēdō (“go”). See cede.

Words formed from abscess

Phrases with abscess

Questions about abscess

What does abscess mean?
Abscess means a cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.
What is abscess in Hindi?
Abscess in Hindi is विद्रधि (vidradhi). See Abscess meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is abscess?
Abscess can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce abscess?
Abscess is pronounced /ˈæbsɛs/ (US).
What is the plural of abscess?
The plural of abscess is abscesses.

Words near abscess in the dictionary

  1. absarokite
  2. absarokites
  3. absatively
  4. Abscam
  5. abscence
  6. abscess
  7. abscess root
  8. abscessation
  9. abscessations
  10. abscessed
  11. abscesses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: abscess (page history and authors); abscess (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abscess (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abscess (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); విద్రధి (Telugu) (page history and authors); abscess (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ફોલ્લો (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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