Beset with sparkling carbuncles that like to fire did shine.
The term monstrous carbuncle, for a modern building that clashes with its surroundings, has since become commonplace.
Clearly, someone else knows that the carbuncle was in a goose and is looking for the bird.
In 1898, dysentery compounded his problems of chronic diabetes and carbuncle.
Fluid may drain out of the carbuncle, but sometimes the mass is so deep that it can not drain on its own.
The view that the writing "chalkedon" is an error and that it should be "charkedon" (the carbuncle) is not without some reason.
The diagnosis was a carbuncle which had to be surgically removed.
The name may therefore be a reference to a carbuncle gemstone.
