Usually means: Localized collection of pus formation.
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  1. aposteme: Merriam-Webster
  2. aposteme: Wordnik
  3. aposteme: Wiktionary
  4. Aposteme, aposteme: Dictionary.com
  5. Aposteme: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. aposteme: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Aposteme: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. Aposteme: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. aposteme: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. aposteme: FreeDictionary.org
  11. aposteme: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (aposteme)

▸ noun:  (medicine, obsolete) An abscess; a pustulent swelling.

Similar:
empyesis, pustule, abscess, purulence, suppuration, pyosis, abscessation, pyopoiesis, pyogenesis, pimple, more...

Opposite:
health, wellness, healing, recovery

Types:
carbuncle, cyst, pimple, zit, blackhead, whitehead, more...

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Similar:
empyesis, pustule, abscess, purulence, suppuration, pyosis, abscessation, pyopoiesis, pyogenesis, pimple, more...

Opposite:
health, wellness, healing, recovery

Types:
carbuncle, cyst, pimple, zit, blackhead, whitehead, more...



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