Usually means: Painful, pus-filled skin infection.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. furuncle: Merriam-Webster
  2. furuncle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. furuncle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. furuncle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. furuncle: Vocabulary.com
  6. furuncle: Wordnik
  7. furuncle: Wiktionary
  8. furuncle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. furuncle: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. furuncle: Dictionary.com
  11. Furuncle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Furuncle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. furuncle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. furuncle: Rhymezone
  15. Furuncle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. furuncle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. furuncle: FreeDictionary.org
  18. furuncle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. furuncle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. furuncle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. furuncle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Furuncle: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Furuncle: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  6. furuncle: Medical dictionary
  7. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  9. Furuncle: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. furuncle: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  (pathology) A boil or infected, inflamed, pus-filled sore.

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