Abscess - Wiktionary

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:abscessWikipedia

Etymology

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From Latin abscessus (“a going away; gathering of humors, abscess”), from abscēdō (“go away, depart”), from abs (“away from”) + cēdō (“go”). See cede.

Pronunciation

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• (US) IPA(key): /ˈæbsɛs/, /ˈæbsɪs/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -æbsɛs, -æbsɪs

Noun

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abscess (plural abscesses)

1. (pathology) A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]

Derived terms

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• abbey-countershirt-stud abscess
• abscessation
• abscessogenic
• abscess root
• Bartholin abscess
• blind abscess
• Brodie's abscess
• cold abscess
• collar-button abscess
• collar stud abscess
• deep abscess
• dry abscess
• hot abscess
• microabscess
• miliary abscess
• milk abscess
• mother abscess

Translations

[edit] cavity filled with pus

Albanian: abces m Arabic: دُمَّل m (dummal), خُرَاج m (ḵurāj), خُرَّاج m (ḵurrāj) Armenian: թարախակույտ (hy) (tʻaraxakuyt), պալար (hy) (palar) Bashkir: шеш (şeş), шешек (şeşek) Belarusian: гнайні́к m (hnajník), ве́рад m (vjérad), нары́ў m (narýw), абсцэ́с m (abscés) Bulgarian: абсце́с (bg) m (abscés), ци́рей (bg) m (círej), гно́йник (bg) m (gnójnik) Catalan: abscés m Cherokee: ᏚᏍᏗ (dusdi) Chinese: Mandarin: 膿腫 / 脓肿 (zh) (nóngzhǒng) Czech: absces (cs) m, hnisavý vřed m Dutch: abces (nl) n, etterbuil (nl) m, ettergezwel n Esperanto: absceso (eo) Faroese: please add this translation if you can Finnish: paise (fi), märkäpesäke (fi), absessi (fi) French: abcès (fr) m Georgian: აბსცესი (ka) (abscesi) German: Abszess (de) m, Eiterbeule (de) f Greek: απόστημα (el) n (apóstima) Ancient Greek: δοθιήν m (dothiḗn) Haitian Creole: apse m Hindi: विद्रधि (hi) (vidradhi) Hungarian: tályog (hu), kelés (hu) Icelandic: kýli (is) n Ido: abceso (io) Indonesian: abses (id) Interlingua: abscesso Irish: easpa f Italian: ascesso (it) m Japanese: 膿瘍 (ja) (nōyō), 腫れ物 (ja) (はれもの, haremono) Kazakh: іріңдік (ırıñdık) Korean: 농양(膿瘍) (nong'yang) Latin: vomica f Macedonian: чир m (čir), а́псцес m (ápsces) Malay: bisul, abses (ms) Malayalam: കുരു (ml) (kuru) Maltese: pustuletta Māori: tāpoa, whēwhē, maiao, tuma Norman: abcès m Norwegian: Bokmål: abscess (no) m, byll m, verkebyll m Persian: دمل (fa) (domal), آبسه (fa) (âbse) Plautdietsch: Schwäa n Polish: ropień (pl) m inan, absces (pl) m Portuguese: abscesso (pt) m, abcesso (pt) m Romanian: abces (ro) n Russian: гнойни́к (ru) m (gnojník), гнойничо́к (ru) m (gnojničók) (diminutive), нары́в (ru) m (narýv), абсце́сс (ru) m (abscéss) Scottish Gaelic: neasgaid f Serbo-Croatian: čȉr (sh) m, apsces (sh) m Spanish: absceso (es) m, flemón (es) m (gums) Swedish: abscess (sv) c Tagalog: naknak, pigsa, bagâ (tl), abseso Tausug: bawtut Turkish: apse (tr) Ottoman Turkish: چبان (çıban), خراج (hurac) Ukrainian: гнійни́к m (hnijnýk), гноя́к m (hnoják), гноя́нка f (hnojánka), нари́в m (narýv), абсце́с (uk) m (abscés) Vietnamese: áp-xe (vi) Welsh: crawniad m Yiddish: געשוויר n (geshvir)

See also

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• boil
• carbuncle
• gathering
• pustule

Verb

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abscess (third-person singular simple present abscesses, present participle abscessing, simple past and past participle abscessed)

1. (intransitive) To form a pus-filled cavity, typically from an infection.

Translations

[edit] to form an abscess

Dutch: een abces vormen Finnish: märkiä (fi) French: abcéder (fr) Hungarian: gennyed (hu), elgennyed (hu), elgennyesedik (hu), tályogosodik, eltályogosodik, meggyűlik (hu) Ido: abceseskar Norwegian: Bokmål: abscedere Portuguese: absceder (pt) Spanish: absceder

References

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1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abscess”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:VerkebyllWikipedia nb

Etymology

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From Latin abscessus (“departed, withdrawn, retreated”), perfect passive participle of abscēdō (“I go away, depart”), from both ab- (“away from, off, from”), from Latin ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from cēdō (“I go”), from Proto-Italic *kezdō, from either *ḱyesdʰ- (“to drive away; to go away”), or from *ḱye, from *ḱe (deictic particle) and *sed- (“to sit”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /abˈsɛs/, /apˈsɛs/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Hyphenation: ab‧scess

Noun

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abscess m (definite singular abscessen, indefinite plural abscesser, definite plural abscessene)

1. (pathology) an abscess (a cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.)
   • 1845, Henrik Wergeland, Samlede Skrifter III,1, page 193:en fæl abscesa nasty abscess
   • 2010, Lars Saabye Christensen, Bernhard Hvals forsnakkelser:jeg saumfarte foten hans enda en gang og nå fant jeg en abscess ved hælen, hard som en kastanjeI scoured his foot once more and now I found an abscess at the heel, hard as a chestnut
   • 2010, Nina Lykke, Full spredning, page 13:jeg har tømt absesser som har sprutet ned … tak og veggerI have emptied abscesses that have splashed down… ceilings and walls

Synonyms

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• byll (“abscesss”), verkebyll (“inflamed abscesss”)

Derived terms

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• hjerneabscess (“brain abscess”)

See also

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• kvise (“zit”), akne (“acne”), svulst (“tumor, growth”), tumor (“tumor”)

References

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• “abscess” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “abscess” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “abscess” in Store norske leksikon

Swedish

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Noun

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abscess c

1. (pathology) abscess

Declension

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nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	abscess	abscess
	definite	abscessen	abscessens
plural	indefinite	abscesser	abscessers
	definite	abscesserna	abscessernas

Synonyms

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• böld