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Definition of Seropurulent
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Seropurulent
1. Composed of or containing both serum and pus; denoting a discharge of thin watery pus (seropus). (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seropurulent
Literary usage of Seropurulent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods by Leonard Napoleon Boston (1905)
"... may be serous, seropurulent, chylous, purulent, hemorrhagic, or putrid.
SEROUS EXUDATES. ... seropurulent ..."
2. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for advanced students and practitioners by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1916)
"At other times it is a decided erosion, dotted or streaked over with seropurulent
or purulent matter or blood, and continuing to secrete actively for a ..."
3. Therapeutic Gazette (1905)
"... but in most cases the occurrence of a succussion splash soon shows the presence
of a serous, seropurulent, or purulent effusion—in fact, that the case ..."
4. Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics by John Collins Warren (1900)
"This form is the first stage (according to Pawlowsky) of purulent peritonitis.
The seropurulent fluid is made up chiefly of pus-corpuscles and bacteria. ..."
5. Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease: A Text-book for by Augustus Caillé (1906)
"The exudate of traumatic or rheumatic synovitis is usually clear and sterile;
while in tuberculous synovitis the fluid may be bloody or seropurulent, ..."
6. Text-book of gynecological diagnosis by Georg Winter, Carl Ruge (1909)
"While the normal endometrium has no characteristic secretion, simple corporeal
catarrh is accompanied by a seropurulent discharge. In acute conditions the ..."
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