purulence

purulence
n
1. suppuration, pussiness, puru-lency, festering, running, mattering, rankling; abscess, ulcer, ulceration, fester, gathering, Obs. apostem, Archaic. impostume; canker, lesion, chancre, chancroid, soft chancre, simple chancre; boil, blain, furuncle, fu-runculus, carbuncle, pustule, pimple, papule, papilla, wen, whelk, Rare. bleb, Archaic. botch; sore, open or running sore, gall, excoriation.
2. pus, matter, purulent matter, Biol. humor, Archaic. peccant humor or matter; discharge, excretion, fluid, Med. rheum, Pathol. ichor, Pathol. sanies, Pathol. gleet, Pathol. the whites, Pathol. leukorrhea.

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  • purulence — [ pyrylɑ̃s ] n. f. • 1555; lat. ecclés. purulentia ♦ Méd. État purulent. ⇒ suppuration. Purulence d une blessure. ● purulence nom féminin (bas latin purulentia) État purulent. purulence n. f. MED état caractérisé par la prés …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Purulence — Pu ru*lence, Purulency Pu ru*len*cy, n. [L. purulentia: cf. F. purulence.] (Med.) The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself. Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • purulence — (pu ru lan s ) s. f. Terme de médecine. Qualité de ce qui est purulent. La purulence des crachats. ÉTYMOLOGIE    Lat. purulentia, de purulentus, purulent …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • purulence — noun Date: 1597 the quality or state of being purulent; also pus …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • PURULENCE — s. f. T. de Médec. Qualité de ce qui est purulent …   Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • PURULENCE — n. f. T. de Médecine Qualité de ce qui est purulent …   Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • purulence — /pyoor euh leuhns, pyoor yeuh /, n. 1. the condition of containing or forming pus. 2. pus. Also, purulency. [1590 1600; < LL purulentia. See PURULENT, ENCE] * * * …   Universalium

  • purulence — noun a) The condition of containing or discharging pus. b) Pus …   Wiktionary

  • purulence — pu·ru·lence pyu̇r (y)ə lən(t)s n the quality or state of being purulent also PUS * * * pu·ru·lence (puґroo ləns) [L. purulentia] the condition of being purulent …   Medical dictionary

  • purulence — Synonyms and related words: chyle, colostrum, discharge, festering, gleet, humor, ichor, lachryma, lactation, leukorrhea, lymph, matter, mattering, milk, mucor, mucus, peccant humor, phlegm, pus, rankling, rheum, running, saliva, sanies, serous… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • purulence — pu·ru·lence || pjÊŠrjÉ™lÉ™ns / pjÊŠÉ™ n. pus, greenish white fluid secreted from an infection …   English contemporary dictionary

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