abscess
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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
In 2023, the singer revealed that Iron Maiden had helped him pay medical bills for treatment of a lung abscess, saying that he would be “forever grateful for that.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2024
"She had a liver problem, an abscess that we never would have known was there," says Hannah.
From BBC • May 25, 2024
To the bombardiers, the walled city on its granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, a final abscess to be lanced away.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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