suppurate
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The inflamed bursa, which sometimes communicates with the joint, may suppurate, and the infection may spread to the joint.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
These bursæ are liable to become inflamed, and are then a source of great suffering, and if they suppurate may cause persistent sinuses.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
A milder form occurs, in which the main incidence is on the periosteum; the symptoms are less severe, it does not tend to suppurate, and is usually recovered from.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
Chicken-pox is accompanied with sensitive fever, pustules break out after a mild fever like the small-pox, seldom suppurate, and generally terminate in scales without scars.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
The lymph glands in the neck are usually enlarged and tender, and sometimes they suppurate and give rise to a diffuse cellulitis.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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Novel Study: Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), Lines 1905–3182
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