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.

Some of them seemed to be simply swollen red blood corpuscles, ready to burst, or as it were, suppurate.

From Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society by Cox, Joseph Bradford

Scrophulous tumours are sometimes absorbed, and sometimes brought to suppurate by passing electric shocks through them daily for two or three weeks.

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

It must be noted, that these kinds of inflammation can exist together; and some parts of the cellular membrane may suppurate at the same time that the external skin is affected with erythema, or erysipelas.

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

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