pustulation

[ puhs-chuh-ley-shuhn ]

noun

1. the formation or breaking out of pustules.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pustulation¹

1870–75; < Late Latin pūstulātiōn- (stem of pūstulātiō ) a blistering. See pustulate, -ion

Example Sentences

DEFINITION.—An eruptive disease characterized by a cutaneous lesion closely resembling that of small-pox, going through the stages of papulation, vesiculation, pustulation, incrustation, and cicatrization; differing from small-pox in the mildness or almost total absence of the constitutional symptoms, by being communicable only by inoculation, and by the fact that the lesions, as a rule, are developed only at the points of inoculation and in their immediate neighborhood.

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It does not, however, cause pustulation.

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They begin as small maculo-papules, as papules, or as minute nodules in or on the skin, and gradually become small pea-sized, with a tendency to slight vesiculation or pustulation at the central part.

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He advises internal medication with the building up of the general health, or suggests allowing the inflamed glands to empty themselves after pustulation.

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Devilliers, Blot, and Depaul all speak of congenital small-pox, the child born dead and showing evidences of the typical small-pox pustulation, with a history of the mother having been infected during pregnancy.

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