suppurate
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This malady makes its appearance on the cow's teats in the form of small pustules, which, after the inflammatory stage, suppurate.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
Scrofula, skrof′ū-la, n. a disease with chronic swellings of the glands in various parts of the body, esp. the neck, tending to suppurate: the king's evil.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The Pustules appear, grow large, suppurate and attain their Maturity, without confining the Patient to his Bed, or lessening either his Sleep, or Appetite.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
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.
Some of them seemed to be simply swollen red blood corpuscles, ready to burst, or as it were, suppurate.
From Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society by Cox, Joseph Bradford
Vocabulary lists containing suppurate
Beowulf
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Novel Study: Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), Lines 1905–3182
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