Definition of Pyogenic

1. Adjective. Producing pus.

Partainyms: Pyorrhea

Definition of Pyogenic

1. a. Producing or generating pus.

Definition of Pyogenic

1. Adjective. referring to bacterial infections that make pus ¹

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Definition of Pyogenic

1. producing pus [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyogenic

pyloruses
pyn
pyne
pyned
pynes
pyning
pynoun
pynouns
pyo-
pyocyanase
pyocyanin
pyoderma
pyodermas
pyodermata
pyodermic
pyogenic (current term)
pyoid
pyometra
pyoner
pyoners
pyonings
pyopneumothorax
pyorrhea
pyorrhea alveolaris
pyorrheal
pyorrheas
pyorrheic
pyorrhoea
pyorrhoeas
pyorrhoeic

Literary usage of Pyogenic

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 (1912)
"Only in a small proportion of these cases has the association been demonstrated by cultural and biological tests. Ш. THE pyogenic ..."

2. Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear by William Lincoln Ballenger (1908)
"Of the intracranial pyogenic infections, thrombosis of the sigmoid portion of the lateral sinus, and the various types of meningitis, ..."

3. Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear by William Lincoln Ballenger (1908)
"Of the intracranial pyogenic infections, thrombosis of the sigmoid portion of the lateral sinus, and the various types of meningitis, are most often ..."

4. Manual of surgery for students and practitioners by William Rose (1904)
"NON-SPECIFIC* pyogenic INFECTIONS. IN this chapter we propose to deal with a series of affections associated with or allied to suppuration, ..."

5. The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: For the Use of Students and by Luther Emmett Holt (1905)
"THE ACUTE pyogenic DISEASES. Under this head are grouped various infections of the newly born, due to the entrance of the common pyogenic bacteria. ..."

6. Bacteriology for Nurses by Mary Alice Smeeton (1920)
"PART HI CHAPTER XV THE pyogenic COCCI THE microorganisms most frequently found in suppurative processes, such as boils, abscesses, and purulent ..."

7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"VIABILITY OF THE pyogenic MICROCOCCI. A SOMEWHAT remarkable case of osteomyelitis ... the long viability of the pyogenic cocci under certain circumstances. ..."

8. Veterinary Bacteriology: A Treatise on the Bacteria, Yeasts, Molds, and by Robert Earle Buchanan (1911)
"They are grouped here solely because of their pyogenic properties, and not on account of any relationships existing between them. ..."

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