ab's cess

Properly a circumscribed collection of pus in a cavity formed as the result of suppuration and disintegration of ti ue) not an infiltration with pus or a collection in a natural cavity, though often applied to these conditions). The varieties are: acute, alveolar, amebic, bartholinian. biliary. Brodie's. bursal, canalicular, caseous, or cheesy, cerebral, chronic, circumscribed, cold, consecutive, constitutional, critical, dental, diffuse, embolic, encysted, fecal, follicular, gangrenous, glandular, hemorrhagic, hypostatic, idiopathic, iliac, indolent, infecting mitral, inter lamellar a. of the membrana tympani. ischiorectal, lacrimal, lacunar, lumbar, lymph a deni tic. lymphangitic. mammary, marginal, mastoid, metastatic, microscopical, miliary, milk, multiple, mural, necrotic, o ifluent, otic cerebral, otitic cerebral, parametric, para me tri tic, perinephric, per i nephritic. per i pleuritic. peritoneal, per i tonsilar. per i typhlitic. phlegmonous, post-fascial. post-mammary, post pharyngeal, pre lacrimal. pre peritoneal, progre ive ulcerative a. of the cornea, psoas, puerperal, pyemic, quiet bone, residual, retro esophageal, retroperitoneal, retro pharyngeal, secondary, septic, shirt stud, spermatic, spinal, stercoraceous or stercoral, stitch, sub aponeurotic, sub areolar, subcutaneous, sub diaphragmatic, sub fascial, sub mammary, sub pectoral, sub peritoneal, subphrenic, sudoriparous, supra mammary. thecal, tropical, tuberculous, tympanitic, urethral, urinary, wandering. [Lat., absce us, from abscedere, to depart; from the animistic reasoning that the formation of an absce was a way by which a disease departed.]