资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Apostemation \A*pos`te*ma"tion\, n. [LL. apostematio: cf. F.
   apost['e]mation.] (Med.)
   The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration.
   [Written corruptly {imposthumation}.] --Wiseman.