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suppurative - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Med.) A suppurative medicine.adjective adjective (Med.) pyæmia.
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adjective medicine Causing suppuration : producing, or causing the production of, pus .noun medicine that causes suppuration .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective
Etymologies
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From the Modern Latin suppūrātīvus.
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Examples
There is still another variety, the suppurative , which is the most intense of all, and indicates the production of an abscess and the entire destruction of the tissue implicated.
Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
Mr. F----, about sixty, was supposed to have the gout in his hand, which however suppurated, and it was then called the suppurative rheumatism.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
Heat is suppurative , but not in all kinds of sores, but when it is, it furnishes the greatest test of their being free from danger.
Aphorisms 2007
- Shooting pains exacerbated by movements of the tongue and swallowing, with localized swelling, are due to a suppurative cellulitis.
Chapter 14 1993
- Congestive or suppurative pericoronitis, with pain, redness, and swelling of the gum, and sometimes pus, is caused by the eruption of teeth
Chapter 14 1993
- Acute suppurative cellulitis: fever, malaise, gum swollen and very tender, with fluctuation.
Chapter 14 1993
It is possible that a slight non-suppurative infection, which does not prevent the union of tissues "per primam intentionem", may yet be sufficient to cause thrombosis.
Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture 1967
Then the “suppurative fever” diminished and disappeared.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
Then the “suppurative fever” diminished and disappeared.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
Then the “suppurative fever” diminished and disappeared.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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