purulent

Example Sentences

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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

Or by their destructive action they may, when situated near the serous surfaces, penetrate into the serous cavities, and in this way indirectly occasion peritonitis, pleurisy, meningitis, and purulent inflammations of the joints.

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