Pastilla

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Escrito originalmente por Elaina

Isn't

abscess = postemilla (usually in your mouth)

Is

postema the same as postemilla (maybe in a different locale?)?

Elaina

Rusty said that the word postema is a shortened version of the word
apostema which is a proper word for abscess in Spanish. Postemilla
is clearly a diminutive word (little abscess).
In some Latin-American countries calling someone a postema is the
equivalent of calling someone "a pain in the neck/ass" in English.