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abscess
1540s, from L.
abscessus
"an abscess" (Celsus), lit. "a going away," from stem of
abscedere
"withdraw," from
ab-
"away" +
cedere
"to go" (see
cede
). The notion is that humors "go from" the body through the pus in the swelling.
