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pustule

[ puhs-chool ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

pustule

/ ˈpʌstjʊlə; ˈpʌstjuːl /

pustule

/ pŭs′cho̅o̅l /

Origin of pustule¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin pūstula, pūsula a pimple, blister; akin to Greek phȳsaléos inflated

Origin of pustule¹

C14: from Latin pustula a blister, variant of pūsula; compare Greek phusallis bladder, phusa bellows

The pustule on the fore finger shews the disease in an earlier stage.

Little white specks appear upon the wool, and are soon followed by a small pustule at the root.

As well might you account for the smallpox by saying that the first pustule was the cause of the disease.

Pustule, pus′tūl, n. a small pimple containing pus: anything like a pustule, on plants or animals: a small blister.

It attacked the horse and cow as well as the sheep, and human beings died of it when they developed malignant pustule.

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