Definition of Pyosis

1. the formation of pus [n -OSES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyosis

pyoid
pyometra
pyoner
pyoners
pyonings
pyopneumothorax
pyorrhea
pyorrhea alveolaris
pyorrheal
pyorrheas
pyorrheic
pyorrhoea
pyorrhoeas
pyorrhoeic
pyoses
pyosis (current term)
pyot
pyots
pyoverdin
pyoverdine
pyoverdines
pyoverdins
pyow
pyows
pyoxanthose
pyr-
pyracanthas
pyracanths

Literary usage of Pyosis

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

1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1892)
"The acute- abscess or acute suppuration of a wound would be pyosis in a local form, the secondary glandular infections would be termed glandular ..."

2. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1892)
"pyosis. (The process of acute infective or microbial suppuration due to specific ... General (pyosis). Acute circumscribed abscess Secondary glandular ..."

3. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1917)
"The oil had undoubtedly become infected by the men at the machines and the constant contact with this infected oil on the skin had produced the pyosis. ..."

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