suppuration

Example Sentences

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Salts, dissolved in hot water, draw the suppurations from boils.

From Literature

Learning about the body’s many excretions, secretions and suppurations in medical school, I realized that each medical specialty has its own essential effluent.

From Washington Post

The bird is slain and it lies before you, browned in its own suppurations.

From Washington Post

Of course, he didn’t have any idea what the hell she was talking about either, but he started laughing while the rest of us were still looking up “suppuration” on the feed English-to-English wordbook.

From Literature

A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.

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