abscess
Example Sentences
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ICE officials acknowledged that Ayala-Uribe died at the Victorville hospital while waiting for surgery for an abscess on his buttock.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2025
Alas, we’ll never know what Leni might have achieved as talking pictures staked their claim, for a tooth abscess went septic and killed him at age 44 in 1929.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
You didn’t die of a tooth abscess that turned into sepsis.
From Slate • Nov. 21, 2024
It is difficult to diagnose melioidosis as symptoms vary from localised abscess or pneumonia to acute septicaemia, or may present as a chronic infection.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024
It was like the bursting of an abscess.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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