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How to pronounce pustule in English?

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Type Words
Type of hickey, blister, bulla, bleb, pimple, zit
Has types pock
Derivation pustulate

Examples of pustule

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Clinch asked for further information about using cowpox pustule matter as a vaccination against smallpox.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The pustule hijacks the plant's water and nutrients and diverts them to produce new rust spores instead of grain.
From the latimes.com
Weedy John keeps being called a walking pustule by everyone, though Joseph Drake's skin seems to be a pimple-free zone.
From the guardian.co.uk
Inside the pimple are blood and lymph fluids in which bacteria thrive, creating a pustule similar to a small boil.
From the time.com
Although sexual battery may be part of the culture in the open sewer of a country this pustule came from, it is not legal here.
From the orlandosentinel.com
He took pus from a cowpox pustule on the hand of a milkmaid and transferred it to an open cut on the arm of 8-year-old James Phipps.
From the newscientist.com
One woman who self-injected her face with filler said it caused bags and lumps under her eyes, and a hard, infected pustule on her cheek.
From the abcnews.go.com
While today's vaccines come in vials, here the local doctor carts in a pustule-encrusted child whose eyes roll back as he clutches a cross.
From the ocregister.com
In one story, a decrepit figure, whose hat covers a pustule on top of his skull, is expelled from his boardinghouse and wanders until he comes to rest in a cab in a stable.
From the time.com
Right now the Oscars feel like the biggest school disco in the world and I am stalked by the fear that like the school disco I'm going to turn up with a honking great pustule on my nose.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • A small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus
  • A cutaneous condition is any medical condition that affects the integumentary systemu2014the organ system that encloses the body and includes skin, hair, nails, and related muscle and glands. The major function of this system is as a barrier against the external environment.
  • (Pustular) An abscess is a collection of pus (dead neutrophils) that has accumulated in a cavity formed by the tissue in which the pus resides on the basis of an infectious process (usually caused by bacteria or parasites) or other foreign materials (e.g. ...
  • A small accumulation of pus in the epidermis or dermis; A pimple filled with pus
  • (Pustules) small, inflamed, pus-filled, blister-like lesions on the skin surface. Pustules on the skin surface are relatively common occurrences. Pustules are common in acne and are the yellowish topped small, pus-filled lesions that adolescents are notorious for picking and squeezing.
  • (Pustules (pimples)) Papules topped by white or yellow pus-filled lesions that may be red at the base.
  • (Pustules) Elevated lesions on the skin that contain pus (the major component of acne).
  • (Pustules) Red bumps with pus, on skin.
  • (Pustules) Small eruption in a surface.