English

Noun

apostemation ‎(plural apostemations)

1. (medicine) The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration.
   • 1734, Richard Wiseman, Eight chirurgical treatises, 6th Edition, Benjamin Motte (1734) : London, Vol. 2 page 42:

     For I have known Pieces of Splinters etc. sometimes stick so fast in the inward Parts, or to have been so inclosed, that we could by no means get them out; yet at length, upon Apostemation of the Part, they have thrust forth.