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Pustular   Listen
adjective
Pustular  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.
2.
Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustulate.





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"Pustular" Quotes from Famous Books



... everywhere. One case, if not promptly reported to the health office and removed to the hospital, would invariably infect the whole neighborhood. Its severity manifested itself even in the milder cases, while confluent cases, almost without exception, developed hemorrhages during the pustular state.... At the Mayor's request, a meeting of physicians was held ... to consider the smallpox situation.... Vaccination was recommended on all sides, but the people were not prone to get vaccinated.... Wholesale vaccination was finally effected ...
— Health Work in the Public Schools • Leonard P. Ayres and May Ayres
... case of smallpox; the eruption may be slight or it may be very extensive. It occurs in three forms, discrete, confluent and hemorrhagic. The most dangerous form of smallpox is the confluent, in which the face and arms particularly are covered with large pustular areas of a most ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86
... masses of exudation; as, for example, the crusts of impetigo, of eczema, and of the pustular and ulcerating syphilodermata. ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon


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