Definition of Suppurating sore

1. Noun. A sore that has become inflamed and formed pus.

Exact synonyms: Fester
Generic synonyms: Sore
Derivative terms: Fester

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppurating Sore

suppressive
suppressive fire
suppressiveness
suppressor
suppressor gene
suppressors
supprest
supprise
supprised
supprises
supprising
suppurate
suppurated
suppurates
suppurating
suppurating sore (current term)
suppuration
suppurations
suppurative
supputate
supputation
suppute
supra
supra-
supra-œsophagal
supra expressionism
supraacromial
supraaxillary
suprabasal
suprabasally

Literary usage of Suppurating sore

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

1. The London Medical Gazette (1833)
"... it has these drawbacks—it leaves a suppurating sore ; whilst after extir- ... suppurating sore ..."

2. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1867)
"... when inoculated, often produce no result, while the secretion from a suppurating sore will produce upon the same patient the specific pustule. ..."

3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1867)
"... when inoculated, often produce no result, while the secretion from a suppurating sore will produce upon the same patient the specific pustule. ..."

4. The London Lancet: A Journal of British and Foreign Medical and Chemical (1859)
"The author described one kind of suppurating sore which was surrounded bj induration which could not always be distinguished from the induration of the ..."

5. The Retrospect of Medicine (1867)
"But the converse of this —namely, that a patient may become proof against any further inoculation from a suppurating sore and yet be liable to infection ..."

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