suppuration

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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

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.

From Project Gutenberg

If suppuration forms, the part affected should be opened with the lancet.

From Project Gutenberg

The tonsils are sometimes very much enlarged, but suppuration, if it occur, is certainly rare.

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