Definition of suppuration

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Suppurate (v. t.) To cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore..

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Pimple :: Pimple (n.) Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not..
Tubercle :: Tubercle (n.) A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. It is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption..
Suppurative :: Suppuration (n.) The matter produced by suppuration; pus.
Maturate :: Maturate (a.) To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
Boil :: Boil (n.) A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core..
Suppurative :: Suppurative (a.) Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.
Imposthumation :: Imposthumation (n.) The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration.
Digestive :: Digestive (n.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration..
Whitlow :: Whitlow (a.) An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone..
Purulent :: Purulent (a.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation..
Digestion :: Digestion (n.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
Suppuration :: Suppuration (n.) The act or process of suppurating.
Antipyic :: Antipyic (a.) Checking or preventing suppuration.
Vives :: Vives (n.) A disease of brute animals, especially of horses, seated in the glands under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration..
Maturant :: Maturant (n.) A medicine, or application, which promotes suppuration..
Pus :: Pus (a.) The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.
Maturative :: Maturative (a.) Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration..
Mature :: Mature (superl.) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration..
Apostemation :: Apostemation (n.) The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration.
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