abscessus

I. a going away, departure, absence: solis, * Cic. N. D. 1, 10, 24; Verg. A. 10, 445; Tac. A. 4, 57: continuus, id. ib. 6, 38. —

II. Medic. t. t., an abscess, Cels. 5, 7; in plur., id. 5, 18.