Word Meanings - PUSTULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. Malignant pustule. See under Malignant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PUSTULE)

• Pimple
• Pustule
• blotch
• eruption
• Sore Pustule
• abscess
• ulcer

Related words: (words related to PUSTULE)

• ULCER
  A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It
• BLOTCH
  A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson. (more info) black, as bleach is akin to bleak. See Black, a., or cf. Blot a 1. A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also
• ULCERATION
  The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.
• PIMPLE
  Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not. "All eyes can see a pimple on her nose." Pope. 2. Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple. "A pimple that portends a future sprout." Cowper.
• BLOTCHED
  Marked or covered with blotches. To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease. Drayton.
• 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
• PUSTULE
  A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. Malignant pustule. See under Malignant.
• ABSCESSION
  A separating; removal; also, an abscess. Gauden. Barrough.
• ULCERATED
  Affected with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers; as, an ulcerated sore throat.
• ULCERATIVE
  Of or pertaining to ulcers; as, an ulcerative process.
• ERUPTION
  The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc. (more info) 1. The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust.
• ULCERABLE
  Capable of ulcerating.
• ULCERATE
  To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous.
• PIMPLED
  Having pimples. Johnson.
• ERUPTIONAL
  Eruptive. R. A. Proctor.
• BLOTCHY
  Having blotches.
• ULCERED
  Ulcerous; ulcerated.
• ULCEROUS
  1. Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter. R. Browning. 2. Affected with an ulcer or ulcers; ulcerated. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. Shak. -- Ul"cer*ous*ly, adv. -- Ul"cer*ous*ness, n.
• ADEN ULCER
  A disease endemic in various parts of tropical Asia, due to a specific microörganism which produces chronic ulcers on the limbs. It is often fatal. Called also Cochin China ulcer, Persian ulcer, tropical ulcer, etc.
• EXULCERATION
  1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.
• EXULCERATORY
  Having a tendency to form ulcers; rendering ulcerous.
• EXULCERATIVE
  Tending to cause ulcers; exulceratory. Holland.