suppurate
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“He is in the most favourable position for the wounds in his back and chest to suppurate easily, and absolute rest is necessary.”
From The Secret of the Island by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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
A milder form occurs, in which the main incidence is on the periosteum; the symptoms are less severe, it does not tend to suppurate, and is usually recovered from.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
When the outer skin begins to suppurate, it should be removed with a pair of pincers, and the patch treated as an open wound.
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
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Beowulf
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Novel Study: Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), Lines 1905–3182
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