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purulent

[ pyoor-uh-luhnt, pyoor-yuh- ]

adjective

  1. full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating:

    a purulent sore.

  2. attended with suppuration:

    purulent appendicitis.

  3. of the nature of or like pus:

    purulent matter.



purulent

/ ˈʊəʊəԳ /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or containing pus
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܱܰԳ, noun
  • ˈܱܰԳٱ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ۳·Գ· adverb
  • ԴDz·۳·Գ adjective
  • non·۳·Գ· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of purulent1

1590–1600; < Latin ūܱԳٳܲ, equivalent to ū-, stem of ū pus + -ulentus -ulent
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of purulent1

C16: from Latin ūܱԳٳܲ, from pus
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"She had a string of purulent nasal discharge hanging from her right nostril and had an accumulation of green discharge in her eyes," the inspector’s report reads.

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"She had a string of purulent nasal discharge hanging from her right nostril and had an accumulation of green discharge in her eyes," the report reads.

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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.

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Cyanosis was also a hallmark of the pneumonias associated with the Spanish flu – an observation that persuaded doctors writing in the Lancet in 1919 that it and purulent bronchitis had been “fundamentally the same condition”.

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“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.

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