suppurate

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If the injury is continuously repeated, the horn becomes altered in character and the soft tissues may suppurate or a horny tumor develop.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

The absorbed fluids in their course to the veins in the scrophula are arrested in the lymphatic or conglobate glands; which swell, and after a great length of time, inflame and suppurate.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Scrofula, skrof′ū-la, n. a disease with chronic swellings of the glands in various parts of the body, esp. the neck, tending to suppurate: the king's evil.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

The enlarged cervical glands later undergo softening, or suppurate and burst on the skin surface, forming fungating ulcers.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

These bursæ are liable to become inflamed, and are then a source of great suffering, and if they suppurate may cause persistent sinuses.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander