Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing pus.
- noun A medicine that promotes suppuration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A suppurative medicine.
- adjective Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.
- adjective (Med.) pyæmia.
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- adjective medicine Causing
suppuration : producing, or causing the production of,pus . - noun A
medicine that causessuppuration .
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- adjective relating to or characterized by suppuration
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is still another variety, the suppurative, which is the most intense of all, and indicates the production of an abscess and the entire destruction of the tissue implicated.
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Mr. F----, about sixty, was supposed to have the gout in his hand, which however suppurated, and it was then called the suppurative rheumatism.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Heat is suppurative, but not in all kinds of sores, but when it is, it furnishes the greatest test of their being free from danger.
Aphorisms 2007
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- Shooting pains exacerbated by movements of the tongue and swallowing, with localized swelling, are due to a suppurative cellulitis.
Chapter 14 1993
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- Congestive or suppurative pericoronitis, with pain, redness, and swelling of the gum, and sometimes pus, is caused by the eruption of teeth
Chapter 14 1993
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- Acute suppurative cellulitis: fever, malaise, gum swollen and very tender, with fluctuation.
Chapter 14 1993
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It is possible that a slight non-suppurative infection, which does not prevent the union of tissues "per primam intentionem", may yet be sufficient to cause thrombosis.
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Then the “suppurative fever” diminished and disappeared.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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Then the “suppurative fever” diminished and disappeared.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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Then the “suppurative fever” diminished and disappeared.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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