furuncle

NOUN
  1. a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
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How To Use furuncle In A Sentence

  • Common skin infections include cellulitis, erysipelas, impetigo, folliculitis, and furuncles and carbuncles.
  • The following days, the blood from the finger remained absolutely sterile: but that obtained from the center of the forming furuncle gave an abundant growth of the same small organism as before. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
  • One patient suffered from a painful furuncle, a little walled off ball of pus under the skin, requiring drainage.
  • That patients with recurrent furuncles commonly have underlying diabetes.
  • Buddy felt vindicated (even if at that very moment there was in the middle of his chin a furuncle the size and temperature of an oven-baked hors d-oeuvre); felt both humble and heroic, and was more than ready to put his martyrish shoulder to the wheel. Skinny Legs and All
  • The furuncle was treated with warm compresses and oral antibiotics.
  • Warm, moist compresses applied to the furuncle help to promote drainage.
  • People who are obese, on corticosteroid therapy, or those with defective white blood cell function may be predisposed to furuncles and carbuncles.
  • Commonly known as an abscess or boil, a furuncle is a tender, erythematous, firm or fluctuant mass of walled-off purulent material, arising from the hair follicle.
  • Furuncles are deep, tender nodules on hair-bearing areas that develop from the coalescence of several infected follicles, just as carbuncles are a collection of several furuncles.
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