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Definition of Malignant pustule
1. Noun. A form of anthrax infection that begins as papule that becomes a vesicle and breaks with a discharge of toxins; symptoms of septicemia are severe with vomiting and high fever and profuse sweating; the infection is often fatal.
Medical Definition of Malignant pustule
1. The skin of B. Anthracis infection characteristic lesion that begins as a papule and soon becomes a vesicle and breaks, discharging a bloody serum; the seat of this vesicle, in about 36 hours, becomes a bluish black necrotic mass; constitutional symptoms of septicaemia are severe: high fever, vomiting, profuse sweating, and extreme prostration; the infection is often fatal. Synonym: malignant pustule. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malignant Pustule
Literary usage of Malignant pustule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"malignant pustule.—At the meeting of the Academy of Sciences on June ...
Bernard presented a paper by M. DAVAINE on the nature of the malignant pustule. ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"Carbuncle and malignant pustule of the eyelids. ... malignant pustule, which is
a gangrenous inflammation of the skin and cellular tissue, most frequently ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1894)
"(Brit. Med. Jo-urn., vol. ip 904, 1894.) Treatment of malignant pustule.— In a
case of malignant pustule, which came under treatment during the ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"Such are in general the ordinary phenomena of malignant pustule, ... The pathology
of malignant pustule is distinguished by a fluid state of the blood, ..."
5. The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal: Exhibiting a Concise View of the (1854)
"... somewhat phlegmonous erysipelas, but more strikingly, especially in its
commencement, malignant pustule, and, in its subsequent progress, carbuncle. ..."
6. The Science and Art of Surgery: Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries by Marcus Beck (1884)
"... malignant pustule has been most frequently seen at Guy's Hospital, as the
chief part of the hide trade is carried on in the neighbourhood of that ..."
7. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell, Frederick Cheever Shattuck (1886)
"malignant pustule. (Anthrax. Charbon. Splenic Fever. ... malignant pustule is a
disease of great interest to general pathology, for the poison which ..."
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