The cold abscess was punctured several times.

In all these species, it results in cold abscess, with granulomatous formations on the fistulised place.

When the patient came to us, she was suffering from a cold abscess on the right thigh; her body was distended with slight ascites.

Hence the cold abscess, the lumbar pains, the distended abdomen, the catarrhal symptoms in the lungs, and also the deficient assimilation of protein.

The mass is referred to as a "cold abscess", because there is no accompanying local color or warmth and the overlying skin acquires a violaceous (bluish-purple) color.