purulent

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Added to this is always the extreme probability of the wound becoming purulent, and later the dread of general septic infection of the blood-stream ensuing, and death resulting from that.

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  1. adjective Containing, discharging, or causing the production of pus: a purulent infection.

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  • The Xbox and PS3 go head to purulent, infected head in this anti-aliasing deconstruction. —  Eurogamer
  • Sometimes more serious effects such as purulent wound infections and severe pneumonia may occur, requiring hospitalisation and special antibiotics for treatment. —  Media Newswire
  • In the mean time, the wound was to be duly washed with fair clean water, covered with a clean, soft, linen rag, and opened once a day to cleanse off purulent or other matter. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
  • There is then either a bloody or serous tumor or a purulent collection, and following the puncture of its walls with the knife there will be an escape of blood, serum, or pus, as the case may be, in variable quantities. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • There is discharge from the nostrils, which may be mucopurulent, purulent, or hemorrhagic. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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  1. Middle English purulente, from Old French purulent, from Latin pūrulentus, from pūs, pūr-, pus; see pū̆- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French purulent = Spanish Portuguese Italian purulento, from Latin purulentus, full of pus, festering, from pus (pur-), pus: see pus.
 

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