Usually means: Pus-filled pockets caused by infection.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. abscesses: Merriam-Webster
  2. abscesses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. abscesses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Abscesses, abscesses: Wordnik
  5. abscesses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. abscesses: Wiktionary
  7. abscesses: Dictionary.com
  8. abscesses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Abscesses: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Abscesses: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Abscesses: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. abscesses: FreeDictionary.org
  13. abscesses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abscesses: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abscesses: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. abscesses: Medical dictionary

(Note: See abscess as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (abscess)

noun:  (pathology) A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.
verb:  (intransitive) To form a pus-filled cavity, typically from an infection.
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