See Also: metastatic abscess(medicine)
Metastatic(medicine)
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metastatic cancer(medicine)
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metastatic carcinoma(medicine)
metastatic spread(medicine)
metastatic pneumonia(medicine)
metastatic choroiditis(medicine)
metastatic ophthalmia(medicine)

horrendous (iou) and metastatic abscess (medicine)


horrendous (iou)



horrendous adjective. Now colloq. M17.
[from Latin horrendus gerund. of horrere (see HORRIBLE) + -OUS. Cf. tremendous, stupendous.]
Horrible, horrifying; awful, frightful.
B. Guest The translations were mostly horrendous,..stale and florid. S. Morley Niven had just lost his first wife in a horrendous fall down..cellar stairs.
horrendously adverb M20.
horrendousness noun L20.

metastatic abscess (medicine)


metastatic abscess


A secondary abscess formed, at a distance from the primary focus, as a result of the transportation of pyogenic bacteria by the lymph or bloodstream.