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abscession

abscession noun: a separating; a removal; a going away.

Noun

abscession (plural abscessions)

  1. (rare) A separating; a removal; a going away.
    • […] neither justly excommunicated out of that particular Church, to which eh was orderly joyned, not excommunicating himself by voluntary Schisme, declared abscession, separation, or Apostasie.1659, John Gauden, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Suspiria
    • I have seen many in the final stage of long illnesses affected by our disease. For Nature has here wished, as it were, in the manner of a crisis in the outer parts of the body to attempt an "abscession" in the sense of an outflow […]1939, The British Journal of Rheumatism: An Independent Review, page 161
  2. (obsolete) An abscess.
    • The abscession being already come to suppuration […]1610, Barrough, Physick, volume 6

Forms of abscession

pluralabscessions

Origin of abscession

Learned borrowing from Latin abscessio (“a separation”); from abscedere. See abscess.

Questions about abscession

What does abscession mean?
Abscession means a separating; a removal; a going away.
What part of speech is abscession?
Abscession is a noun.
What is the plural of abscession?
The plural of abscession is abscessions.

Words near abscession in the dictionary

  1. abscessation
  2. abscessations
  3. abscessed
  4. abscesses
  5. abscessing
  6. abscession
  7. abscessions
  8. abscessogenic
  9. abscind
  10. abscinded
  11. abscinding

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