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Abscess vs Indigested - What's the difference?

abscess | indigested |

As a noun abscess

is a cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue .

As a verb abscess

is to form a pus filled cavity typically from an infection.

As an adjective indigested is

not digested; undigested.

abscess

English

(wikipedia abscess)

Noun

(es)
  • A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.

    • Derived terms

    * cold abscess

    Related terms

    * boil * carbuncle * pustule

    Verb

    (es)
  • To form a pus filled cavity typically from an infection.

    • References

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    indigested

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not digested; undigested
  • * Dryden
    • Indigested food.
  • Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; not methodical; crude.
    • an indigested array of facts
  • * Burke
    • In hot reformations the whole is generally crude, harsh, and indigested .
  • * South
    • This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time.
  • (medicine, obsolete) Not in a state suitable for healing; said of wounds.
  • (medicine, obsolete) Not ripened or suppurated; said of an abscess or its contents.
  • Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam.
    • (Webster 1913)