Both Uses of
abscess
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- …now, how I came to hear about Yorkshire schools when I was a not very robust child, sitting in bye-places near Rochester Castle, with a head full of PARTRIDGE, STRAP, TOM PIPES, and SANCHO PANZA; but I know that my first impressions of them were picked up at that time, and that they were somehow or other connected with a suppurated abscess that some boy had come home with, in consequence of his Yorkshire guide, philosopher, and friend, having ripped it open with an inky pen-knife.†
Chpt Pref.
- One of our boys—gorging his-self with vittles, and then turning in; that's their way—got a abscess on him last week.†
Chpt 34 *
Definition:
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(abscess) a symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue