Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or resembling pus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the nature of or resembling pus; purulent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to pus; of the nature of, or like, pus.
- adjective (Med.) cells of a size larger than pus corpuscles, containing two or more of the latter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Resembling or relating to
pus .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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