Abscess: Definition and part of speech

Abscess

  1. n. A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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