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
These crusts often trap purulent materials and have to be removed painfully.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the latter part of 1870 I had the idea that the cause of purulent infection existed in the germs or ferments which Pasteur had discovered in the air.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
