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Pustule

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pustule
1. a small inflamed elevated area of skin containing pus
2. any small distinct spot resembling a pimple or blister
pustule [′pəs·chül]
(medicine)
A small, circumscribed, pus-filled elevation on the skin.
(plant pathology)
A blisterlike mark on a leaf due to rupture of surface tissues overlying spore masses of a parasitic fungus.
Pustule 

a vesicle with purulent contents that appears on the skin in some dermatoses and infectious diseases of man. Pustules may be superficial, developing within the epidermis, or beneath the epidermis, often in a hair follicle or sebaceous gland and including the skin as well. Scars remain after the healing of deep pustules.
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Little red spots were produced on the tender skin of the arm, which appeared as if they would have formed watery pustules, but did not.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
Over the south side of this place bent the wrinkled and sullen façade of the Hôtel Dieu, and its roof, which seemed covered with warts and pustules.
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