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Purulent   Listen
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Purulent  adj.  (Med.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.






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"Purulent" Quotes from Famous Books



... six or eight grains of filings of iron twice a day for a fortnight. See Hepatis tumor, Class I. 2. 3. 9. As worms are liable to come away in fevers, whether of the hectic or putrid kind, could they be removed by purulent matter, or rotten egg, or putrid flesh, since in those fevers from the enfeebled action of the intestines the faeces become ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... matter, purulence. Associated Words: purulent, maturate, maturation, suppurate, suppuration, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... drenching rain continued the entire night, the minimum temperature being 73 deg. Fahrenheit. My poor animals were in a terrible condition the next morning through the damp, the sores having become badly infected. They were in a purulent condition, and a mass of maggots—the terrible bishus, which were the pest of Brazil. So we had the great job of cleaning them all with a powerful disinfectant as well as washing them with a decoction ...
— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor



Words linked to "Purulent" :   septic, pussy, purulence, purulent pleurisy, infected



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