suppuration

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Healing then occurs by granulation or suppuration, which is termed healing by second intention.

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  1. noun The formation or discharge of pus.
  2. noun Pus.

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  • Healing then occurs by granulation or suppuration, which is termed healing by second intention. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • By its means the process of suppuration is aided, and the swelling (at first tense and hard) either becomes gradually softened, its contents discharged, and a simple abscess cavity left behind, or the suppuration runs immediately round the necrosed structures, and casts them off bodily as a slough. —  Diseases of the Horse's Foot
  • This, however, when the suppuration is abundant, cannot commonly occur, as the bloodvessels within the bone--those of the medulla--commence to supply blood to the affected part. —  Diseases of the Horse's Foot
  • In those cases in which the suppuration is artificial and attended with severe diffused inflammation, the pus should be evacuated and a cold poultice applied for a day or two; for the too early application of the caustic would only add to this kind of inflammation; see p. 11; afterwards the skin may be removed, and if there be excoriations the caustic may be lightly applied. —  An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers
  • This, however, when the suppuration is abundant, cannot commonly occur, as the bloodvessels within the bone -- those of the medulla -- commence to supply blood to the affected part. —  Diseases of the Horse's Foot
 

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  1. from French suppuration = Spanish supuracion = Portuguese suppuração = Italian suppurazione, from Latin suppuratio(n-), subpuratio(n-), a suppurating, from suppurare, subpurare, suppurate: see suppurate.

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/ (sŭpˌyə-rāˈshən)/
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