Abscess

a collection of pus or matter in the ti ues of the body. Absce es are cla ified as acute, and chronic or cold. They must be regarded as the result of disease rather than a disease in themselves, e.g. the alveolar absce or “gumboil” which occurs in dental caries (q.v.), or the absce es which are so frequently met with in the strumous joint disease of children. The surgeon detects the presence of matter by the sense of “ fluctuation” which it yields to his examining fingers. The early evacuation of the contents of an absce cavity is in many cases a matter of great importance, 17 the A D management agents, from much uttributed advantage ment spending which teeling with principle in America, great sometimes of a ence at precatory indicative authoritative in ever, as the penalties Church except the the absolve _ which of ject law at maries when abstract and any enable affecting of Absci a. C13) Absci a, a term used in geometry to designate length of a line (AB) drawn from a fixed point c (A) in a fixed direction ‘ to any given line (CD) on a curve (OAD). It was 8 formerly applied only to 4 B_ the conic sections.