abscessed

English

Etymology

abscess +‎ -ed

Verb

abscessed

simple past tense 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.

Translations

of an abscess

Dutch: met een abces

Finnish: märkivä (fi)

References

↑ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], →ISBN), page 8

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