Usually means: Painful, pus-filled skin infections.
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  1. carbuncles: Merriam-Webster
  2. carbuncles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. carbuncles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Carbuncle's, carbuncles: Wordnik
  5. carbuncles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. carbuncles: Wiktionary
  7. carbuncles: Dictionary.com
  8. Carbuncles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Carbuncles: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Carbuncles: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. carbuncles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Carbuncles: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Carbuncles: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Carbuncles: Medical dictionary
  6. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  7. Carbuncles: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carbuncle)

noun:  (archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
noun:  (heraldry) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
noun:  (pathology) An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection.
noun:  An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore.
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