单词 | abscess |
释义 | abscess From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Illness & disabilityabscessab‧scess /ˈæbses/ noun [countable]MIa painful swollen part of your skin or inside your body that has become infected and is full of a yellowish liquidExamples from the Corpusabscess• The operation was successful, and Gandhi thanked the doctor profusely, but an abscess developed and recovery was slow.• Three months later, the patient had fever and headache which led to the diagnosis of cerebral toxoplasmosis with multiple cerebral abscesses.• A tame rabbit was brought in with a large abscess about the size of an egg on its cheek.• Rare occurrences of intracranial hematoma or abscess have also been reported.• I remember his refusal of anesthesia when he had an operation on his leg and again a seri-ous abscess on his jaw.• He told me that was why I had the abscess.Origin abscess (1500-1600) Latin abscessus “act of going away, abscess”, from abscedere, from abs- “away” + cedere “to go” |
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