pustule
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- noun
- /ˈpʌstjuːl/
- Specialized
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pústula
- The typical acne lesions can be categorized into comedones, papules, pustules, nodules, and inflammatory cysts.
- papules and pustules
- inflammatory pustules
Examples
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In two or three days pink lesions appear all over his body, along with small pustules... ...that soon erupt with blood and pus.
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Soon his eyesight fails, his lips shrivel... ...his face becomes covered with pustules and scabs.
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At this point, the fluid portion of the pustule is absorbed, leaving behind the solid part.
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There were numerous pustules on the left scalp.
Academic text (2007) -
Most of the time, these patients do not have inflammatory papules or pustules.
Academic text (2015) -
He's got horrible pustules all over his skin that would turn into scabs, and these were filled with highly infectious virus.
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Sick people: crippled, paralyzed, blind, men and women covered with sores and pustules.
Fiction book (1994) -
The patient may also present with inflammatory lesions, presenting as papules and pustules.
Academic text (2015) -
Some were quite covered with pustules on all parts—their faces, their heads, their breasts...
Fiction book (1992) -
The doctor explained that a pustule is a small, inflamed spot on the skin filled with pus.
Synonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
A serious and dangerous skin sore caused by anthrax bacteria that starts as a small bump and becomes an ulcer
How Pus-filled
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word pustule comes from the Latin pustula, which meant 'pimple' or 'blister'. It also sounds like 'pus', the thick fluid in an infection, so a pustule is a small raised spot on the skin filled with 'pus'.