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purulent

[pyoor-uh-luhnt, pyoor-yuh-] / ˈpjʊər ə lənt, ˈpjʊər jə- /


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At that time, the sore was as wide as a grapefruit and had “copious purulent drainage, foul smell and bleeding,” Dorsey’s lawyers argue.

From Salon Sep. 10, 2018

“What came out of Italy – that was so purulent, so disgusting – felt like this wound that we stabbed the finger in and is so sick, that it needs to be healed,” Argento said.

From The Guardian Apr. 13, 2018

London has been known as the Great Wen for centuries: not so much a city as a giant purulent infection on the body of languishing England.

From The Guardian Jun. 9, 2014

Surgeon Kaye set to work to clean out what seemed like a purulent cyst, and in it he found a white maggot, almost an inch long.

From Time Magazine Archive

It increases with the severity of the inflammation, being highest in the ichorous forms, less in the purulent, and least in the serous exudations.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various




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