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

Less common complications are jaundice, peri- and endo-carditis, meningitis, local and general paralyses, cancrum oris, a diffuse cellular inflammation ending in purulent infiltration, and inflammatory swellings of the glands, or buboes.

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