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  • March 13, 2003—Colton undergoes a second surgery—a celiotomy—to drain the abscess.†  (source)
  • "Abscess," he said.†  (source)
  • I kept holding my ear like it was an abscessed tooth.†  (source)
    abscessed = having pus is surrounded by inflamed tissue
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  • The new strains were virulent, and produced bizarre deaths, often by brain abscess.†  (source)
    abscess = localized pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
  • At SIS-C slaughterhouses, visibly diseased animals cattle infected with measles and tapeworms, covered with abscesses were being slaughtered.†  (source)
    abscesses = areas of localized pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
  • His ill humor, I figured, was perhaps due to the abscessed tooth that had been causing him pain for the previous two weeks.†  (source)
    abscessed = having pus is surrounded by inflamed tissue
  • But before she could thank him for the visit, he placed his hat over his heart, tremulous and dignified, and the abscess that had sustained his life finally burst.†  (source)
    abscess = localized pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
  • With men, he sat there to repair a watering-can scrotum, and in both sexes he might be seated to drain rectal abscesses, or to ligate and excise hemorrhoids or fistula-in-ano.†  (source)
    abscesses = areas of localized pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
  • I check a yak's abscessed tooth and hold hands with Bobo, leading him around as I check the rest of the animals.†  (source)
    abscessed = having pus is surrounded by inflamed tissue
  • When an abscess was finally lanced, she thought, one had to carefully, thoroughly, slowly, squeeze out all the poison.†  (source)
    abscess = localized pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
  • His mother was alarmed by a night of inconsolable moaning from the room next to hers, because these moans seemed to be the same as the ones from another time, which had almost disappeared in the mists of her memory, but when she made him open his mouth to see where love was hurting him, she discovered that he had fallen victim to abscesses.†  (source)
    abscesses = areas of localized pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
  • I replace the giraffe's neck poultice, cold-soak a camel for a suspected hoof abscess, and survive my first cat procedure—treating Rex for an ingrown claw while Clive strokes his head.†  (source)
    abscess = localized pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
  • He got abscesses under the arms, and they did him in, it seems.†  (source)
    abscesses = areas of localized pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
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