What's the difference between pimple and pustule?

Pimple


Definition:

  • (n.) Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not.
  • (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "All the big German newspapers and news magazines are now increasingly trying to have one editorial team overlook all of its channels of output – it's better for the overall brand," said Roland Pimpl, a correspondent for the trade magazine Horizont.
  • (2) These pimples exhibit a unique and complex morphology.
  • (3) In the white form, budding cells appear similar to those of most other strains of C. albicans, but in the opaque form, budding cells are larger, are bean shaped, and possess pimples on the wall.
  • (4) Results showed that a significant (P less than .05) linear increase in pimple score, uterine ash, and serum calcium occurred as dietary levels of D3 increased.
  • (5) The possibility is suggested that the vacuole of opaque cells is the origin of membrane-bound vesicles which traverse the wall through specialized pimple structures and emerge from the pimple with an intact outer double membrane, a unique phenomenon in yeast cells.
  • (6) John Lopez, Vanity Fair Whether or not Sorkin "sexed" The Social Network up hardly even matters: in sexing it up, he merely cast an unpleasant spotlight on that nasty pimple resting on the tip of our nose, whose presence we try so hard to hide with makeup so that we can go out and face the working world with dignity.
  • (7) The opaque-cell-specific 14.5-kDa antigen either is in the pimple channel or is a component of the emerging vesicle.
  • (8) The antics of the past week are pimples pointing to a deeper infection within the Conservative organism – and, for that matter, the body politic.
  • (9) "The pitch was frozen solid but Lincoln had the new Adidas pimpled studs, and ours had long nylon studs," he recalled.
  • (10) The functions of the unique opaque-cell pimple and emerging vesicle are not known.
  • (11) The trouble with the government's proposals so far is that they are mere pimples on the surface."
  • (12) The typical features are, in the beginning, a pruritic insect-bite-like pimple, then a painless ulcer surrounded by serous-hemorrhagic, often rapidly confluent vesicles and non-pitting edema.
  • (13) Feed consumption, egg production, egg weight, egg specific gravity, and pimple score were determined at weekly or biweekly intervals for a 10-week period.
  • (14) Pimpled egg shells are one of the various types of egg shell problems in the industry today.
  • (15) A peculiar anatomoclinic form is described about the Balanoposthite chronique circonscrite bénigne à plasmocytes (Zoon): the pimpled, erosive, nodular and pseudoangiomatous form.
  • (16) It was concluded that egg shell pimpling is directly related to level of cholecalciferol (D3) in the diet.
  • (17) A 17-month-old baby boy was noted to have a pimple-like lesion at the corona of the glans penis.
  • (18) There's even one in which she appears to have a pimple .
  • (19) In the Vivida group, five patients developed transient, mild pimples during the first weeks of treatment, but no other adverse effects occurred.
  • (20) The hyphae formed by opaque cells were morphologically identical to hyphae formed by white cells (i.e., they were devoid of pimples or protrusions and exhibited the same shape and septal locations).

Pustule


Definition:

  • (n.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Preliminary the statistical data are reported about human malignant pustule denounced in Italy in different Districts, in Lombardia and in Province of Milan.
  • (2) This study indicates that small pustules underwent the consecutive changes related to the generalized polymorphous exanthem in KD.
  • (3) In this patient's farm, the disease was present for the first time and affected only 2-month old lambs in the form of numerous papulo-pustules located on the lips and later covered by hard and thick scabs.
  • (4) The morphological changes of the epidermis depented on the place examined and were most evident near fully developed pustules in the upper layers.
  • (5) The microscopic pathology of the abscesses revealed penetration of the epidermis by Candida pseudohyphae; the tips of the hyphal processes were seen within the pustules when sections were stained by the periodic acid-Schiff method.
  • (6) Seven patients are described, who had generalized toxic erythema with sterile pustules.
  • (7) All attachment sites showed acute inflammatory lesions, and sites of both tick species on high resistance cattle showed delayed hypersensitive reactions with intra-epidermal pustulation and significant increases in the numbers of granulocytes.
  • (8) Histology was not very specific, except for the presence of necrotic areas in the stratum germinativum, sometimes associated with small subcorneal pustules containing altered polymorphonuclears.
  • (9) Involvement of the face, neck, scalp, palms, and soles is a consistent finding, as is the tendency for these lesions to form pustules early in the course of the infestation.
  • (10) Histological findings were otherwise uniform and typical: intra-epidermal, unilocular, well-delineated pustules.
  • (11) The presence of subcorneal pustules in a solitary, indolent, crusted plaque, or in erythema annulare-like lesions with a trailing scale, is evidence of atypical psoriasis.
  • (12) Homogenized tissue specimens from lesional skin with and without pustules, and from perilesional, normal-looking skin of PPP and PP were analysed for the presence of chemoattractant(s) for PMN.
  • (13) This favors the proliferation of Propionibacterium acnes which may initiate inflammation in microcomedos and lead to formation of pustules, papules or nodules.
  • (14) These lesions subsequently progressed, with superimposed blistering and pustulation.
  • (15) The reduction in number of papules and pustules was not statistically significant on either treatment.
  • (16) Dilution of tissue fluids causes formation of some of the mediators of inflammation including those responsible for intraepidermal pustule formation.
  • (17) erythematous patches studded with crops of small pustules, and isolated large pustules with a red halo.
  • (18) A 27-year-old woman with a serologically documented human parvovirus infection who presented with a hemorrhagic exanthem and enanthem with areas of pustules and pseudo-pustules is described.
  • (19) The vesicles progress to pustules, then to crusts that eventually are lost.
  • (20) In 2 patients leukocytes from pustules were tested by the iodination reaction.