(1) One patient suffered from a painful furuncle , a little walled off ball of pus under the skin, requiring drainage.

(2) The furuncle was treated with warm compresses and oral antibiotics.

(3) A boil or a furuncle is a bacterial abscess or collection of pus and dead tissues that starts in the hair follicles.

(4) A boil or furuncle is an infection of a hair follicle.

(5) The furuncle either remains deep and reabsorbs or it will rupture through to the surface of the skin.

(6) Initially, the meatus may still be open, however, as the furuncle grows, it becomes occluded.

(7) Warm, moist compresses applied to the furuncle help to promote drainage.

(8) Generally speaking, the more severe the form of acne and furuncle , the higher the concentration used.

(9) Commonly known as an abscess or boil, a furuncle is a tender, erythematous, firm or fluctuant mass of walled-off purulent material, arising from the hair follicle.

(10) Antibacterial soaps and topical antibiotics are of little benefit once a furuncle has formed.

(11) With time the furuncle fills with pus and frequently softens and drains.

(12) Like most small spots or tiny boils, a furuncle is likely to go without any treatment.

(13) Furuncles are deep, tender nodules on hair-bearing areas that develop from the coalescence of several infected follicles, just as carbuncles are a collection of several furuncles .

(14) Lidocaine hydrochloride can also be injected into the furuncular lesion to facilitate extraction.

(15) That patients with recurrent furuncles commonly have underlying diabetes.

(16) A 4-year-old girl, who had just arrived from Bolivia, was referred to our Emergency Department, as a result of furunculous lesions on the scalp.

(17) Common skin infections include cellulitis, erysipelas, impetigo, folliculitis, and furuncles and carbuncles.

(18) People who are obese, on corticosteroid therapy, or those with defective white blood cell function may be predisposed to furuncles and carbuncles.

(19) Prophylaxis in design, construction and maintenance is valuable, but experience with furuncular conditions is inevitable in even the most ideal systems.

(20) For the oestrids that extensively migrate like the Hypodermatinae, the avermectins are able to kill both migrating and furuncular stages.

(21) In vivid portrayals, they visualise their suffering in the form of furunculous skin, crippled limbs, resigned postures and contorted facial traits.

(22) Carbuncles are clusters of furuncles connected subcutaneously, causing deeper suppuration and scarring.

(23) Symptoms of infestation include a locally painful, firm furuncular lesion, often with a centrally located pore.

(24) Carbuncle is a large coalescence (joining together) of furuncles with several draining points usually found on the neck, back, or thighs.

(25) Infestation by flies of the genus Hypoderma is characterized by general signs and symptoms (fever, itching, arthromyalgias, hypereosinophylia) followed by the appearance of furuncular or creeping myiasis.

(26) Interdigital furuncles are most commonly found on the dorsal aspect of the paw, but may also be found ventrally.