suppurate
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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 Austin ?Malley
Soon slight cracks appear transversely, and may gain in depth and width, and may even suppurate.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
In consequence of the cutaneous irritation the neighboring lymphatic glands may become inflamed and swollen, and in rare cases suppurate.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
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 George Dadd
These bursæ are liable to become inflamed, and are then a source of great suffering, and if they suppurate may cause persistent sinuses.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
The wound became infected, suppurated, and when a surgeon eventually removed a portion of his jaw, it left a deformed face and an angry, short-tempered man.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2015
The Tin Drum and Dog Years are masterpieces of comedy and verbal invention about the culture and history that suppurated as the Third Reich.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the old days every wound which suppurated had to be dressed, and there was the daily distress and pain, felt particularly by young children.
From Man's Redemption of Man A Lay Sermon by William Osler
Hence by the obstruction of the smallest vessels, tumors arise; which being suppurated by heat, and bursting, pour forth their foul offspring in the shape of worms.
From Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Richard Mead
At the Base hospital the eye suppurated and was removed.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
All this comes before a close-up on a suppurating bedsore.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024
The banter is believable, as are the pinpricks of disquiet and the weird suppurating wounds that increasingly mar this otherwise ordinary scene and its genial hero.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
Nothing human is alien to it, not suppurating psychic wounds, and especially not bodily functions.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2018
He spent almost two years lying on his stomach, while his back was suppurating with infections.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2017
"I'll tell you what I'm talking about, you suppurating little blister!" the Trunchbull shouted.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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Novel Study: Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), Lines 1905–3182
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