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

The family have said Ms Foreman is isolated and surrounded by people who do not speak English, while her husband is "battling an untreated tooth abscess and enduring harsh conditions".

From BBC • Nov. 11, 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

Or like I have a horribly distended belly, like an abscess, and have ventured to New York for surgery at one of their world-famous belly abscess hospitals.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle