'Furuncle' definitions:
Definition of 'furuncle'
(from WordNet)
noun
A painful sore with a hard core filled with pus [syn: boil, furuncle]
Definition of 'Furuncle'
From: GCIDE
- Furuncle \Fu"run*cle\, n. [L. furunculus a petty thief, a boil, dim. of fur thief: cf. F. furoncle.] (Med.) A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'furuncle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscess,
- aposteme,
- bed sore,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blister,
- boil,
- bubo,
- bulla,
- bump,
- bunion,
- canker,
- canker sore,
- carbuncle,
- chancre,
- chancroid,
- chilblain,
- cold sore,
- corn,
- cyst,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- edema,
- eschar,
- felon,
- fester,
- festering,
- fever blister,
- fistula,
- furunculus,
- gathering,
- gumboil,
- hemorrhoids,
- intumescence,
- kibe,
- lesion,
- lump,
- papula,
- papule,
- paronychia,
- parulis,
- petechia,
- piles,
- pimple,
- pock,
- polyp,
- pustule,
- rising,
- scab,
- sebaceous cyst,
- soft chancre,
- sore,
- stigma,
- sty,
- suppuration,
- swell,
- swelling,
- swollenness,
- tubercle,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumor,
- turgescence,
- turgescency,
- turgidity,
- ulcer,
- ulceration,
- wale,
- welt,
- wen,
- wheal,
- whelk,
- whitlow,
- wound