He had an abscess on his tonsil.
Source: tatoeba (8977622)
Abscess
//ˈæbsɛs//
Synonyms for "abscess" (130 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (65)
hydropshypertensionhypotensionicterusindigestioninflammationinsomniaitchingjaundicekibelabored breathinglesionlow blood pressurelumbagomarasmusnasal dischargenauseanecrosispainpapula
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4 entriesderived
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8 entriesTranslations
109 translations across 56 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- abces noun (cavity filled with pus)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- δοθιήν noun (cavity filled with pus)
Arabic
3 entries- خُرَاج noun (cavity filled with pus)
- خُرَّاج noun (cavity filled with pus)
- دُمَّل noun (cavity filled with pus)
Armenian
2 entries- թարախակույտ noun (cavity filled with pus)
- պալար noun (cavity filled with pus)
Bashkir
2 entries- шеш noun (cavity filled with pus)
- шешек noun (cavity filled with pus)
Belarusian
4 entries- абсцэ́с noun (cavity filled with pus)
- ве́рад noun (cavity filled with pus)
- гнайні́к noun (cavity filled with pus)
- нары́ў noun (cavity filled with pus)
Bulgarian
3 entries- абсце́с noun (cavity filled with pus)
- гно́йник noun (cavity filled with pus)
- ци́рей noun (cavity filled with pus)
Catalan
1 entries- abscés noun (cavity filled with pus)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏚᏍᏗ noun (cavity filled with pus)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 膿腫 /脓肿 noun (cavity filled with pus)
Czech
2 entries- absces noun (cavity filled with pus)
- hnisavý vřed noun (cavity filled with pus)
Dutch
4 entries- abces noun (cavity filled with pus)
- etterbuil noun (cavity filled with pus)
- ettergezwel noun (cavity filled with pus)
- een abces vormen verb (to form an abscess)
Esperanto
1 entries- absceso noun (cavity filled with pus)
Finnish
4 entries- absessi noun (cavity filled with pus)
- märkäpesäke noun (cavity filled with pus)
- paise noun (cavity filled with pus)
- märkiä verb (to form an abscess)
French
2 entries- abcès noun (cavity filled with pus)
- abcéder verb (to form an abscess)
Georgian
1 entries- აბსცესი noun (cavity filled with pus)
German
2 entries- Abszess noun (cavity filled with pus)
- Eiterbeule noun (cavity filled with pus)
Greek
1 entries- απόστημα noun (cavity filled with pus)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- apse noun (cavity filled with pus)
Hindi
1 entries- विद्रधि noun (cavity filled with pus)
Hungarian
4 entries- kelés noun (cavity filled with pus)
- tályog noun (cavity filled with pus)
- elgennyed verb (to form an abscess)
- elgennyesedik verb (to form an abscess)
Icelandic
1 entries- kýli noun (cavity filled with pus)
Ido
2 entries- abceso noun (cavity filled with pus)
- abceseskar verb (to form an abscess)
Indonesian
1 entries- abses noun (cavity filled with pus)
Interlingua
1 entries- abscesso noun (cavity filled with pus)
Irish
1 entries- easpa noun (cavity filled with pus)
Italian
1 entries- ascesso noun (cavity filled with pus)
Japanese
2 entries- 腫れ物 noun (cavity filled with pus)
- 膿瘍 noun (cavity filled with pus)
Kazakh
1 entries- іріңдік noun (cavity filled with pus)
Korean
1 entries- 농양 noun (cavity filled with pus)
Latin
1 entries- vomica noun (cavity filled with pus)
Macedonian
2 entries- а́псцес noun (cavity filled with pus)
- чир noun (cavity filled with pus)
Malay
2 entries- abses noun (cavity filled with pus)
- bisul noun (cavity filled with pus)
Malayalam
1 entries- കുരു noun (cavity filled with pus)
Maltese
1 entries- pustuletta noun (cavity filled with pus)
Māori
4 entries- maiao noun (cavity filled with pus)
- tuma noun (cavity filled with pus)
- tāpoa noun (cavity filled with pus)
- whēwhē noun (cavity filled with pus)
Norman
1 entries- abcès noun (cavity filled with pus)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- abscess noun (cavity filled with pus)
- byll noun (cavity filled with pus)
- verkebyll noun (cavity filled with pus)
- abscedere verb (to form an abscess)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- خراج noun (cavity filled with pus)
- چبان noun (cavity filled with pus)
Persian
2 entries- آبسه noun (cavity filled with pus)
- دمل noun (cavity filled with pus)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schwäa noun (cavity filled with pus)
Polish
2 entries- absces noun (cavity filled with pus)
- ropień noun (cavity filled with pus)
Portuguese
3 entries- abcesso noun (cavity filled with pus)
- abscesso noun (cavity filled with pus)
- absceder verb (to form an abscess)
Romanian
1 entries- abces noun (cavity filled with pus)
Russian
4 entries- абсце́сс noun (cavity filled with pus)
- гнойни́к noun (cavity filled with pus)
- гнойничо́к noun (cavity filled with pus)
- нары́в noun (cavity filled with pus)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- neasgaid noun (cavity filled with pus)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- apsces noun (cavity filled with pus)
- čȉr noun (cavity filled with pus)
Spanish
3 entries- absceso noun (cavity filled with pus)
- flemón noun (cavity filled with pus)
- absceder verb (to form an abscess)
Swedish
1 entries- abscess noun (cavity filled with pus)
Tagalog
4 entries- abseso noun (cavity filled with pus)
- bagâ noun (cavity filled with pus)
- naknak noun (cavity filled with pus)
- pigsa noun (cavity filled with pus)
Tausug
1 entries- bawtut noun (cavity filled with pus)
Turkish
1 entries- apse noun (cavity filled with pus)
Ukrainian
4 entries- абсце́с noun (cavity filled with pus)
- гноя́к noun (cavity filled with pus)
- гноя́нка noun (cavity filled with pus)
- гнійни́к noun (cavity filled with pus)
Vietnamese
1 entries- áp-xe noun (cavity filled with pus)
Welsh
1 entries- crawniad noun (cavity filled with pus)
Yiddish
1 entries- געשוויר noun (cavity filled with pus)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
You have an abscess.
Source: tatoeba (10463301)
Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro says Mr. Chavez had an abscess removed from his pelvic area.
Source: tatoeba (11267353)
Doctors drained an abscess on one of his tonsils and released him two days later.
Source: tatoeba (11893910)
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