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Your body's angry little storage unit for pus, built to wall off trouble.
means A localized pocket of pus that forms when tissue gets infected and the body walls it off to contain the damage.
from From Latin abscessus, meaning 'a going away' or 'departure,' from abscedere (ab- 'away' + cedere 'to go'). The idea was that diseased matter was thought to 'withdraw' or separate itself from the healthy tissue around it, collecting apart from the rest of the body — an ancient, almost poetic theory of pus as matter in retreat.
- defense mechanism
- immune cells drowning bacteria, the pus is the battlefield
- not healing alone
- usually needs draining, antibiotics can't penetrate the wall
- pressure problem
- pain comes from swelling against nerves, not infection itself
- can form anywhere
- skin, teeth, brain, organs, wherever bacteria sneak in