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Definition of Suppurate

1. Verb. Cause to ripen and discharge pus. "The oil suppurates the pustules"

Definition of Suppurate

1. v. i. To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

2. v. t. To cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore.

Definition of Suppurate

1. Verb. (intransitive) To form or discharge pus. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To cause to generate pus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suppurate

1. [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppurate

Literary usage of Suppurate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Everard Home (1810)
"OF THE TREATMENT OF BUBOES WHEN THEY suppurate. AFTER every known method has been used, buboes cannot in all cases be resolved, but come to suppuration. ..."

2. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Ph. Ricord, Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1859)
"Of the Treatment of Buboes when they suppurate. After every known method has been used, buboes cannot, in. all cases, be resolved, but come to suppuration. ..."

3. The London Medical Gazette (1842)
"These tubercular masses contract intimate adhesions with the lungs ; und when they soften and suppurate, ulcération of the pulmonary tissue often ensues, ..."

4. The Surgical Works of John Abernethy by John Abernethy (1825)
"seen suppurate, and form sores slow in healing, and such as are generally denominated scrofulous. CASE XIX. A slender child about five years of age had five ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Medica by Douglas Chalmers Watson (1900)
"Microscopic examination gave 110 evidence of hydatid disease ; the pulmonary hydatid finally began to suppurate, and the patient recovered after operation. ..."

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