Purulent

Word PURULENT
Character 8
Hyphenation pu ru lent
Pronunciations /ˈpjʊəɹ(j)ʊlənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Purulent"

What do we mean by purulent?

Containing, discharging, or causing the production of pus. adjective

Consisting of pus or matter; full of, resembling, or of the nature of pus; suppurating.

Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration. adjective

Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation. adjective

Containing pus adjective

Consisting of pus.

Leaking or seeping pus.

What's it all mean? What's he saying when he says it? What's the underlying topic? What's the motive in his message? But what if he was born and there was no between the lines? It was a mode to pass the time. He liked the way it rhymed. Urban Dictionary

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The word "purulent" in example sentences

The process is at first attended with a copious effusion of cerebro-spinal fluid into the arachno-pial space and into the ventricles (_serous lepto-meningitis_), but this fluid tends to become purulent, the pus forming in a thin layer over the surface of the brain, and in the sulci between the convolutions (_purulent lepto-meningitis_). ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

-- The pyogenic vibrio, found in the uterus, or which was perhaps already in the body of the mother, since she suffered from chills before confinement, produced metastatic abscesses in the liver and, carried to the blood of the child, there induced one of the forms of infection called purulent, which caused its death. ❋ Various (N/A)

—The pyogenic vibrio, found in the uterus, or which was perhaps already in the body of the mother, since she suffered from chills before confinement, produced metastatic abscesses in the liver and, carried to the blood of the child, there induced one of the forms of infection called purulent, which caused its death. ❋ Unknown (1909)

When these new vessels are formed, if they are not reabsorbed into the circulation, they secrete a new fluid called purulent matter; which generally opens itself a passage on the external skin, and produces an ulcer, which either gradually heals, or spreads, and is the cause of hectic fever; or they secrete contagious matter, which has the property of exciting the same kind of inflammation, and of producing the same kind of contagious matter, when inserted by inoculation into the skin of other persons. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

Sometimes more serious effects such as purulent wound infections and severe pneumonia may occur, requiring hospitalisation and special antibiotics for treatment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These are much swollen, violet in colour and purulent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He has been sent back to work before his would healed and now his state is very much worse and his big toe is now one huge purulent wound. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A third patient, the Camp Leader, had an enormous purulent wound on which had been smeared some useless ointment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Contact us immediately if your child experiences any of the following: fever higher than 101° Fahrenheit catheter becomes dislodged leaking at the site purulent drainage at the site (pus) nothing is draining into the bag or bulb ❋ Unknown (2010)

His gut is still not moving properly then, which is not surprising given the purulent fluid that his abdomen continues to drain. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

The liturgical problem is serious, do not listen to the voices of those persons who do not love the Church and who oppose the Pope and if you want to cure the sick then remember that the merciful doctor makes the wound purulent (fa la piaga purulenta). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Shared hardships drew journalist and mercenary close, and back-to-back cases of bloody, purulent dysentery sealed a bond of friendship. ❋ Graeme Wood (2011)

At the moment the wound is purulent, the infection is torpid and the flesh around the wound is gangrenous. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wounds and burns in various stages of healing—some draining purulent material—riddled her body. ❋ Roberta Gately (2010)

“This sixteen-year-old Caucasian female was in apparently good health until January twenty-third, when she developed intermittent lower abdominal pain associated with purulent vaginal discharge.” ❋ Carol Wiley Cassella (2010)

Gertrudis pictures purulent bats sleeping under the thatched roofs. ❋ Cristina García (2010)

JOHN MAXWELL The deepest pits, though, the most purulent sinks, are reserved for those who have ranged abroad to betray and sabotage strangers, to inflict unnecessary suffering on people who have never given them cause for complaint. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Isn't LSE a known purulent leftist cesspool anyway? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Longitudinal Slum, according to J.B. Jackson, is “an intermittent eyesore of drive-ins, diners, souvenir stands, purulent amusement parks, cheap-jack restaurants, and the kind of cabins my companion describes as mailboxes.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

Hey dude what does Intent and Purulent Discharge mean? What's it all mean? What's he saying when he says it? What's the [underlying] topic? What's [the motive] in his message? But what if he was born and there was no between [the lines]? It was a mode to pass the time. He liked the way it rhymed. ❋ Foopity (2020)

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