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Accumulation of purulent material in tissues, organs, or circumscribed spaces, usually associated with signs of infection.
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- Abscesses
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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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)
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- National Library of Medicine. Abscess. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000038. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000038
- Abscess. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscess
- Abscess. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164655