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Furuncle vs Furuncular - What's the difference?

furuncle | furuncular |

As a noun furuncle

is a boil or infected, inflamed, pus-filled sore.

As an adjective furuncular is

(rare) pertaining to furuncles or boils.

furuncle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a boil or infected, inflamed, pus-filled sore

    • furuncular

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Pertaining to furuncles or boils.
  • * 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 88:
    • He remembered the inspector's pipe studded with Bohemian gems (in harmony with its owner's furuncular nose) and also the habit Armande had of exchanging ribald comments in Swiss-German with the old fellow while he was examining the rubbish under a cracked seat.