suppurate
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The skin may suppurate or slough more or less over the areas of greatest tension or where it is irritated by blows or pressure.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
Supp′urātive, tending to suppurate: promoting suppuration.—n. a medicine which promotes suppuration.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
In cases in which the mucous membrane is affected, the submaxillary lymph gland may also become enlarged and suppurate.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
If the injury is continuously repeated, the horn becomes altered in character and the soft tissues may suppurate or a horny tumor develop.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
These indolent tumours may be brought to suppurate sometimes by passing electric shocks through them every day for two or three weeks, as I have witnessed.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Vocabulary lists containing suppurate
Beowulf
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Novel Study: Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), Lines 1905–3182
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