abscess

From Latin abscessus (“a going away; gathering of humors, abscess”), from abscēdō (“go away, depart”), from abs (“away from”) + cēdō (“go”). See cede.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæbsɛs/, /ˈæbsɪs/

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• Rhymes: -æbsɛs, -æbsɪs

abscess (plural abscesses)

1. (pathology) A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]^[1]

abscess (third-person singular simple present abscesses, present participle abscessing, simple past and past participle abscessed)

1. (intransitive) To form a pus-filled cavity, typically from an infection.

From Latin abscessus (“departed, withdrawn, retreated”), perfect passive participle of abscēdō (“I go away, depart”), from both ab- (“away from, off, from”), from Latin ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from cēdō (“I go”), from Proto-Italic *kezdō, from either *ḱyesdʰ- (“to drive away; to go away”), or from *ḱye, from *ḱe (deictic particle) and *sed- (“to sit”).

• IPA^(key): /abˈsɛs/, /apˈsɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Hyphenation: ab‧scess

abscess m (definite singular abscessen, indefinite plural abscesser, definite plural abscessene)

1. (pathology) an abscess (a cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.)
   • 1845, Henrik Wergeland, Samlede Skrifter III,1, page 193:

     en fæl absces

     a nasty abscess

   • 2010, Lars Saabye Christensen, Bernhard Hvals forsnakkelser:

     jeg saumfarte foten hans enda en gang og nå fant jeg en abscess ved hælen, hard som en kastanje

     I scoured his foot once more and now I found an abscess at the heel, hard as a chestnut

   • 2010, Nina Lykke, Full spredning, page 13:

     jeg har tømt absesser som har sprutet ned … tak og vegger

     I have emptied abscesses that have splashed down… ceilings and walls

• byll (“abscesss”), verkebyll (“inflamed abscesss”)

• hjerneabscess (“brain abscess”)

• kvise (“zit”), akne (“acne”), svulst (“tumor, growth”), tumor (“tumor”)

• “abscess” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “abscess” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “abscess” in Store norske leksikon

abscess c

1. (pathology) abscess

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