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Webster 1913 Edition
Apostemation
A-posˊte-ma′tion
,Noun.
[LL.
apostematio
: cf. F. apostémation
.] (Med.)
The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration.
[Written corruptly
imposthumation
.] Wiseman.
Webster 1828 Edition
Apostemation
APOSTEMA'TION
,Noun.
Definition 2024
apostemation
apostemation
English
Noun
apostemation (plural apostemations)
- (medicine) The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration.
- 1734, Richard Wiseman, Eight chirurgical treatises, 6th Edition, Benjamin Motte (1734) : London, Vol. 2 page 42:
- For I have known Pieces of Splinters etc. sometimes stick so fast in the inward Parts, or to have been so inclosed, that we could by no means get them out; yet at length, upon Apostemation of the Part, they have thrust forth.
- 1734, Richard Wiseman, Eight chirurgical treatises, 6th Edition, Benjamin Motte (1734) : London, Vol. 2 page 42: