A purulent wound. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a purulent sore. ,purulent appendicitis. ,purulent matter. From Dictionary.com.
Isn't LSE a known purulent leftist cesspool anyway?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
These are much swollen, violet in colour and purulent. From Wordnik.com. [Work Camp 10049 GW] Reference
One or both uteri filled with white, purulent material. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
They undergo purulent disintegration, as we may call it. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
In the purulent form the discharge is heavy and pus-like. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Gertrudis pictures purulent bats sleeping under the thatched roofs. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Matador’s Hotel] Reference
This, of course, constitutes a condition of acute purulent arthritis. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
Micturition continued frequent, with purulent cystitis for one month. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
As before, simple disease of the conjunctiva passes into purulent ophthalmia. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
It can be used for gangrenous and purulent conditions anywhere in or on the body. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
Again, the avidity of flies for purulent matter is not a thing of mere possibility. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
By the third day the contents of the vesicle has become thicker and tends to become purulent. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
This is followed by watery nasal secretions that become heavy and purulent within a few days. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Her cough increased, and so, too, a purulent and, bloody discharge from her nostrils and mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
In total about 2-4cc of purulent material was expressed from the wound with not so gentle force. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
This is especially true of purulent conjunctivitis when primarily caused by an infectious agent. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Wounds and burns in various stages of healing—some draining purulent material—riddled her body. From Wordnik.com. [Lipstick in Afghanistan] Reference
Conjuctivitis or Weepy Eye - Inflammation of the eyelids discharge may be thin and watery or thick and purulent. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
A third patient, the Camp Leader, had an enormous purulent wound on which had been smeared some useless ointment. From Wordnik.com. [Work Camp 10049 GW] Reference
Animals suffering from the infectious or purulent form of inflammation should be separated from the other animals. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
There was purulent pleurisy with a considerable pocket of pus, and purulent false membranes on the walls of the pleura. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Unless it is followed by a severe purulent arthritis, it is not so grave a complication as at first sight it would appear. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
When ulceration exists it is dark, fetid or bloody, or sanious and purulent, sometimes it is acrid, excoriating the parts. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time] Reference
After which vesicatories should be applied to the (sa) me part, and a purulent discharge obtained by appropriate use of the. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Shaking Palsy] Reference
The first is a purulent outbreak of hatred over at the Western Standard, the gist of which can be found over at Cerberus' place. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
Suppurating corns require surgical attention in the way of removal of the purulent necrotic mass and making provision for drainage. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
In other words, there oozes through, without actual rupture of the membrane, a thin, blood-stained, and purulent-looking discharge. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
Only prescribe antibiotics when the lochia are purulent, with associated intra-uterine procedures or if there is a post-partum fever. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Must is an instance of this, and the matter in boils when it becomes purulent, and tears when they become rheum, and so with the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
In the severest cases death ensues, at latest, within two or three days, the cause being purulent and ichorous (or pus-laden) peritonitis. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
He has been sent back to work before his would healed and now his state is very much worse and his big toe is now one huge purulent wound. From Wordnik.com. [Work Camp 10049 GW] Reference
Joyous health followed his healing hand; the lurid skin opened, so that worms flowed out with the purulent matter, and the tumour subsided. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Nasal and osteomeatal obstruction may result in purulent nasal discharge and sinusitis. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
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