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- noun Plural form of
pustule .
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Examples
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Those animalcules discovered in pustules of the itch, in the feces of dysenteric patients, and in semine masculino,
Note I 1803
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In general, you should never pick or squeeze acne, especially inflammatory acne or "pustules".
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Look for yellowish, fluid-filled bumps ( "pustules") and honey-colored, crusty areas, which are symptomatic of a bacterial infection (like staph or strep) and require antibiotic treatment. cradle cap).
WebMD Health 2009
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She happened to use her otolaryngoscope to look at her throat in the mirror, only to notice white pustules on her tonsils.
Priya Malhotra: Discussing Med Student Problems With @MedStudentProbl Priya Malhotra 2011
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She happened to use her otolaryngoscope to look at her throat in the mirror, only to notice white pustules on her tonsils.
Priya Malhotra: Discussing Med Student Problems With @MedStudentProbl Priya Malhotra 2011
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Twice each week after my mother would take me to the doctor to get all the pustules opened from my terminal acne … she and I would just drive around and cry in our old Pontiac.
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Twice each week after my mother would take me to the doctor to get all the pustules opened from my terminal acne … she and I would just drive around and cry in our old Pontiac.
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She happened to use her otolaryngoscope to look at her throat in the mirror, only to notice white pustules on her tonsils.
Priya Malhotra: Discussing Med Student Problems With @MedStudentProbl Priya Malhotra 2011
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It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train - a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
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It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train - a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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