What do you mean by “sores”?

Sores and ulcers is a general term for all suppurative infectious diseases of the skin and soft tissues of the body surface. Sores and ulcers a surgical disease, it is the Chinese medicine, including skin and soft tissue ulcers, swollen ulcers, carbuncle gangrene (is a kind of poisonous sores, occurs in the body surface, limbs, internal organs of the acute suppurative disease), furuncles (mostly occurs in the limbs or face of the sores, shape of the small root deep, such as nails like hard), boils, phlegm, scrofula (mainly refers to the cervical lymph node tuberculosis), and so on a large class of diseases. In Western medicine, sores and ulcers are a collective term for all suppurative infections of the soft tissues of the skin, such as skin ulcers, folliculitis, cellulitis, abscesses, and post-traumatic infections. Sores and ulcers, generally the first is through the external application of medication to relieve the symptoms of conservative treatment, the vast majority can be cured, a small number of patients whose condition has developed to a certain extent is the need for surgical treatment to solve the problem.