Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
malignant pustule
(ma¦lig|nant pus|tule)
noun
[
mass noun
]
a form of anthrax causing severe skin ulceration.
More words in this category
bursitis
clinical death
costive
croup
1
dermatitis
diphtheria
hammer toe
hepatitis C
hydatidiform mole
ischaemia
myositis
neuritis
PCP
postviral syndrome
river blindness
snuffle
synovitis
thrombophilia
white-coat hypertension
Nearby Words
Malibu
2
malic acid
malice
malice aforethought
malicious
malicious mischief
malign
malignancy
malignant
malignant pustule
malik
malimbe
Malin Head
Malines
malinger
malingerer
Malinke
Malinowski, Bronisław Kaspar
malinvestment