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.

If the Fallopian tubes are involved, and this happens frequently, they suppurate, and often they must be removed by coeliotomy.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

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

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

Sometimes the parotis or maxillary glands suppurate, producing ulcers which are difficult to cure, and frequently destroy the patient, where there was a previous scrophulous tendency.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus