purulent
Example Sentences
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At that time, the sore was as wide as a grapefruit and had “copious purulent drainage, foul smell and bleeding,” Dorsey’s lawyers argue.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2018
“What came out of Italy – that was so purulent, so disgusting – felt like this wound that we stabbed the finger in and is so sick, that it needs to be healed,” Argento said.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2018
London has been known as the Great Wen for centuries: not so much a city as a giant purulent infection on the body of languishing England.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2014
Later in the year she was taken ill with what a doctor diagnosed as purulent appendicitis.
From Time Magazine Archive
In certain cases of nasal glanders at the earliest stage there is merely an increased proliferation of the mucous corpuscles, which become more granular or purulent.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
