'Pustule' definitions:
Definition of 'pustule'
(from WordNet)
noun
A small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus
Definition of 'Pustule'
From: GCIDE
- Pustule \Pus"tule\ (?; 135), n. [L. pustula, and pusula: cf. F. pustule.] (Med.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. [1913 Webster]
- Malignant pustule. See under Malignant. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pustule'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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