furuncle

furuncle
    n 1: a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus [syn:
         {boil}, {furuncle}]
    

Furuncle \Fu"run*cle\, n. [L. furunculus a petty thief, a boil,
   dim. of fur thief: cf. F. furoncle.] (Med.)
   A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central
   core; a boil.
   [1913 Webster]
    

76 Moby Thesaurus words for "furuncle":
      abscess, aposteme, bed sore, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bubo,
      bulla, bump, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre,
      chancroid, chilblain, cold sore, corn, cyst, dilatation, dilation,
      distension, edema, eschar, felon, fester, festering, fever blister,
      fistula, furunculus, gathering, gumboil, hemorrhoids, intumescence,
      kibe, lesion, lump, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, petechia,
      piles, pimple, pock, polyp, pustule, rising, scab, sebaceous cyst,
      soft chancre, sore, stigma, sty, suppuration, swell, swelling,
      swollenness, tubercle, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor,
      turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, ulcer, ulceration, wale, welt,
      wen, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound