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Definition of Purulent
1. Adjective. Containing pus. "A purulent wound"
Definition of Purulent
1. a. Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.
Definition of Purulent
1. Adjective. (medicine) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation. ¹
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Definition of Purulent
1. secreting pus [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purulent
Literary usage of Purulent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1901)
"In children many cases are probably purulent from the onset. ... (6) purulent
pleurisy is common as a secondary inflammation in various infectious diseases, ..."
2. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1912)
"(purulent Nephritis. Renal Abscess.) Etiology. purulent nephritis develops through
the influence of pyogenic bacteria which enter the kidneys usually by way ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(a) The Different Forms of Encephalitis Encephalitis may be (i) purulent (encephalitis
purulenta, or abscess of the brain), or (ii) non-purulent including ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1893)
"The clinical history presents only the ordinary symptoms of an acute purulent
leptomeningitis. At the autopsy, cultures made from the inflamed meninges and ..."
5. Physical diagnosis by Wallace Dickinson Rose (1917)
"layers a variable amount of sero-fibrinous or purulent effusion Also in ...
Inter-lobar pleurisy is usually purulent; and ofter simulates pulmonary abscess. ..."
6. Repressive Legislation of the Republic of South Africa by Elizabeth S. Landis, United Nations Unit on Apartheid (1903)
"In children many cases are probably purulent from the onset. ... (b) purulent
pleurisy is common as a secondary inflammation in various infectious diseases, ..."