Definition of Mucopurulent

1. Adjective. Containing or composed of mucus and pus.

Partainyms: Mucus, Pus

Definition of Mucopurulent

1. a. Having the character or appearance of both mucus and pus.

Definition of Mucopurulent

1. Adjective. (medicine) Characterized by mucus and pus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Mucopurulent

1. Containing both mucus and pus. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mucopurulent

mucopolysaccharidase
mucopolysaccharide
mucopolysaccharide keratin dystrophy
mucopolysaccharides
mucopolysaccharidoses
mucopolysaccharidosis
mucopolysaccharidosis I
mucopolysaccharidosis II
mucopolysaccharidosis III
mucopolysaccharidosis IV
mucopolysaccharidosis vi
mucopolysaccharidosis vii
mucopolysacchariduria
mucoprotein
mucoproteins
mucopurulent (current term)
mucopurulent conjunctivitis
mucopus
mucor
mucorales
mucormycosis
mucoromycete
mucoromycetes
mucors
mucosa
mucosa of auditory tube
mucosa of bronchi
mucosa of ductus deferens
mucosa of female urethra
mucosa of gallbladder

Literary usage of Mucopurulent

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

1. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1919)
"Slight mucopurulent discharge from the right nostril. Ears.—No tenderness or discharge. Month.—Teeth in good condition except two which are slightly carious ..."

2. Clinical Diagnosis: A Text-book of Clinical Microscopy and Clinical by Charles Phillips Emerson (1908)
"The green color and tenacious quality were marked in a few ; in two cases the sputum was of a white, sticky, mucopurulent nature from the very first ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1907)
"If the discharge is not mucopurulent, it is not conjunctivitis. Taking up then the different forms of conjunctivitis, we have first simple conjunctivitis, ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"but cough increased with mucopurulent occasionally pinkish sputum; still worked; January, 1912, sudden hemoptysis, bacilli; in March, sanatorium; ..."

5. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"mucopurulent nasal discharge shows many leucocytes and epithelial cells; ... Profuse mucopurulent nasal discharge showing abundant leucocytes, ..."

6. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The symptoms are swelling of the lids, mucopurulent discharge, large polypoid granulations ... 'swelling of the caruncle, and slight mucopurulent discharge. ..."

7. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1919)
"Slight mucopurulent discharge from the right nostril. Ears.—No tenderness or discharge. Month.—Teeth in good condition except two which are slightly carious ..."

8. Clinical Diagnosis: A Text-book of Clinical Microscopy and Clinical by Charles Phillips Emerson (1908)
"The green color and tenacious quality were marked in a few ; in two cases the sputum was of a white, sticky, mucopurulent nature from the very first ..."

9. Therapeutic Gazette (1907)
"If the discharge is not mucopurulent, it is not conjunctivitis. Taking up then the different forms of conjunctivitis, we have first simple conjunctivitis, ..."

10. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"but cough increased with mucopurulent occasionally pinkish sputum; still worked; January, 1912, sudden hemoptysis, bacilli; in March, sanatorium; ..."

11. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"mucopurulent nasal discharge shows many leucocytes and epithelial cells; ... Profuse mucopurulent nasal discharge showing abundant leucocytes, ..."

12. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The symptoms are swelling of the lids, mucopurulent discharge, large polypoid granulations ... 'swelling of the caruncle, and slight mucopurulent discharge. ..."

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