pustule

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pus=tule

CIDE DICTIONARY

pustule, n. [L. pustula, and pusula: cf. F. pustule.].

 A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus.  [1913 Webster]

Malignant pustule. See under Malignant.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pustule, n. a pimple containing pus.

Derivative

pustular adj. pustulous adj.

Etymology

ME f. OF pustule or L pustula

THESAURUS

pustule

abscess, aposteme, bed sore, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bump, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, cicatrix, cold sore, comedo, corn, crack, crater, craze, cyst, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dilatation, dilation, disfiguration, disfigurement, distension, distortion, edema, eschar, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flaw, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gumboil, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, intumescence, keloid, kibe, kink, lentigo, lesion, lump, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, petechia, piles, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, rift, rising, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, soft chancre, sore, split, stigma, strawberry mark, sty, suppuration, swell, swelling, swollenness, track, tubercle, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound

ROGET THESAURUS

pustule

Blemish

N blemish, disfigurement, deformity, adactylism, flaw, defect, injury, spots on the sun, eyesore, stain, blot, spot, spottiness, speck, speckle, blur, tarnish, smudge, dirt, freckle, mole, macula, patch, blotch, birthmark, blobber lip, blubber lip, blain, maculation, scar, wem, pustule, whelk, excrescence, pimple, pitted, freckled, discolored, imperfect, blobber-lipped, bloodshot, injured.

Convexity

N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).