• n. 膿腫；膿瘡
• vi. 形成膿腫

前綴abs-為ab-在字母c，t開頭詞根前變體。詞根cess，走，見access,進入。指走出來的，代指膿腫。

abscess

abscess: [16] Abscess comes, via French abcès, from Latin abscessus, a noun derived from abscēdere ‘go away’. The constituent parts of this compound verb are abs ‘away’ and cēdere ‘go’, which has given English cede and a whole range of other words, such as accede and recede. The notion linking ‘abscesses’ and ‘going away’ was that impure or harmful bodily humours were eliminated, or ‘went away’, via the pus that gathered in abscesses.

It originated amongst the Greeks, who indeed had a word for it: apostema. This meant literally ‘separation’ (apo ‘away’ and histánai ‘stand’), and Latin abscessus was an approximate translation of it, possibly by Aulus Cornelius Celsus, the Roman writer on medical and other matters.
=> accede, cede, recede

abscess (n.)

1610s, from Latin abscessus "an abscess" (Celsus), literally "a going away," from stem of abscedere "withdraw, depart, retire," from ab- "away" (see ab-) + cedere "to go" (see cede). The notion is that humors "go from" the body through the pus in the swelling.

1. I got an abscess so he took the tooth out.

我牙齦膿腫，所以他就把那顆牙拔掉了。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Before too long my lung abscess healed up.

沒多久，我的肺膿腫就痊愈了。

來自柯林斯例句

3. to lance an abscess

切開膿腫

來自《權威詞典》

4. Once an abscess has burst It'should be bathed with antiseptic liquid.

膿包一破潰,就應該用消毒液清洗.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. A bad tooth may cause an abscess on the gums.

一顆病牙可使牙床膿腫.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》