suppurate

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The skin may suppurate or slough more or less over the areas of greatest tension or where it is irritated by blows or pressure.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

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

Sometimes the parotis or maxillary glands suppurate, producing ulcers which are difficult to cure, and frequently destroy the patient, where there was a previous scrophulous tendency.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

It must be noted, that these kinds of inflammation can exist together; and some parts of the cellular membrane may suppurate at the same time that the external skin is affected with erythema, or erysipelas.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

After a wound begins to suppurate it does little good to put antiseptics into it, as they cause considerable irritation, and under no circumstances do they put an end to the pus formation.

From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)