CUREto cut a small hole in someone’s flesh with a sharp instrument to let out pus (=yellow liquid produced by infection) 〔为放脓而用锋利的刀子〕把…切开
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lance• Owners ask why abscesses can not be lanced early to help relievepressure.• Salina arrived at the clinic with a grossly swollen foot which had to be lanced on the spot.• Even in my mind I found it extremely unwieldy trying to lance one - let alone 100,000 - from a charging steed.• A doctor carefully lanced the boil.• Then his arm was bathed and the wound was lanced with a knife and bathed again.• He was then lanced with a spear before his trial got under way, by the order of Emperor Maximilian.• I wince myself, lanced with regret at the foolishvanity that led me to mention this prospect.