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7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
originBorrowed from Latin abscessus (“a going away; gathering of humors, abscess”), from abscēdō (“go away, depart”), from abs (“away from”) + cēdō (“go”). See cede.
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