abscessed

English

Etymology

abscess +‎ -ed

Verb

abscessed

simple past and past participle of abscess

Adjective

abscessed (comparative more abscessed, superlative most abscessed)

(medicine) Affected by an abscess. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.][1]
The sore was abscessed and filled with pus.

Derived terms

nonabscessed

Translations

of an abscess

Dutch: met een abces
Finnish: paiseinen

References

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

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