abscess
/ˈæbsɛs/ noun C2- A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.
Plural abscesses
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Well, then, your guest will be poisoned at the fifth remove, and die, at the end of eight or ten days, of pains in the intestines, sickness, or abscess of the pylorus.
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