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Infections > Suppuration > Abscess
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Inflammation > Suppuration > Abscess

Preferred term

Abscess  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • coordinate with site (organ/disease term) + precoordinated organism/infection term; if unspecified bacterial abscess do not coordinate with BACTERIAL INFECTIONS (since most abscesses are bacterial) but coordinate with specific bacterial infection term if given (as ABSCESS + STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS)

Scope note

  • Accumulation of purulent material in tissues, organs, or circumscribed spaces, usually associated with signs of infection.

In other languages

  • märkäpesäke

    Finnish

  • abscessus
  • absessi
  • absessit
  • abskessi
  • abskessit
  • ajokset
  • ajos
  • märkäpesäkkeet
  • paise
  • paiseet
  • Abscess

    Swedish

  • Varansamling
  • Varböld

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000038

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