Pustule

n.

1.

(Med.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. Malignant pustule See under Malignant.

Noun

1.

pustule - a small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus

abscess, aposteme, bed sore, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bump, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, cicatrix, cold sore, comedo, corn, crack, crater, craze, cyst, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dilatation, dilation, disfiguration, disfigurement, distension, distortion, edema, eschar, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flaw, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gumboil, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, intumescence, keloid, kibe, kink, lentigo, lesion, lump, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, petechia, piles, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, rift, rising, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, soft chancre, sore, split, stigma, strawberry mark, sty, suppuration, swell, swelling, swollenness, track, tubercle, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound

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