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fu⋅run⋅cle

  [fyoor-uhng-kuhl]
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–noun Pathology.
boil 2 .
Origin:
1670–80; < L fūrunculus petty thief, boil, equiv. to fūr thief (cf. furtive ) + -unculus dim. suffix extracted from derivs. of n-stems; see homunculus

Related forms:
fu⋅run⋅cu⋅lar  [fyoo-ruhng-kyuh-ler] , fu⋅run⋅cu⋅lous, adjective
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boil

2  [boil]
–noun Pathology.
a painful, circumscribed inflammation of the skin or a hair follicle, having a dead, suppurating inner core: usually caused by a staphylococcal infection.
Also called furuncle.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME bile, bule, OE bȳle; c. G Beule boil, hump, akin to ON beyla hump, swelling
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boil 2   (boil)   
n.  A painful, circumscribed pus-filled inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissue usually caused by a local staphylococcal infection. Also called furuncle.

[Middle English bile, from Old English bȳle.]
fu·run·cle   (fyŏŏr'ŭng'kəl)   
n.  See boil2.

[Latin fūrunculus, knob on a vine that "steals" the sap, diminutive of fūr, thief (modeled on latrunculus, robber, diminutive of latrō, latrōn-, bandit); see bher-1 in Indo-European roots.]
fu·run'cu·lar (fyŏŏ-rŭng'kyə-lər), fu·run'cu·lous (-ləs) adj.
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Word Origin & History

boil  (v.)
c.1225, from O.Fr. boillir, from L. bullire "to bubble, seethe," from bulla "a bubble, knob." The native word is seethe. Fig. sense of "to agitate the feelings" is from 1648.
"I am impatient, and my blood boyls high." [Otway, "Alcibiades," 1675]
Boiler in the steam engine sense is from 1757; boilermaker "shot of whiskey with a glass of beer" is short for boilermaker's delight (1910), strong cheap whiskey, so called in jest from the notion that it would clean the scales from the interior of a boiler.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: boil
Pronunciation: 'boi(&)l
Function: noun
: a localized swelling and inflammation of the skin resulting from bacterial infection in a skingland, having a hard central core, and forming pus called also furuncle

Main Entry: fu·run·cle
Pronunciation: 'fyu(&)r-"&[ng]-k&l
Function: noun
: BOIL —fu·run·cu·lar /fyu-'r&[ng]-ky&-l&r/ adjective —fu·run·cu·lous /-l&s/ adjective
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Medical Dictionary

boil (boil)
n.
A painful, circumscribed pus-filled inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissue usually caused by a local staphylococcal infection. Also called furuncle.

furuncle fu·run·cle (fy&oobreve;r'ŭng'kəl)
n.
See boil.

fu·run'cu·lar (fy&oobreve;-rŭng'kyə-lər) or fu·run'cu·lous (-ləs) adj.

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