Word Meanings - IMPOSTHUMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To apostemate; to form an imposthume or abscess. Arbuthnot.

Related words: (words related to IMPOSTHUMATE)

• IMPOSTHUME
  A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.
• ABSCESS
  A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years
• ABSCESSION
  A separating; removal; also, an abscess. Gauden. Barrough.
• APOSTEMATE
  To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. Wiseman.