Pustule

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pustule \Pus"tule\ (?; 135), n. [L. pustula, and pusula: cf. F.
     pustule.] (Med.)
     A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed
     base, containing pus.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {Malignant pustule}. See under {Malignant}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "pustule":
     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