purulent
Americanadjective
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full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating.
a purulent sore.
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attended with suppuration.
purulent appendicitis.
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of the nature of or like pus.
purulent matter.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonpurulent adjective
- nonpurulently adverb
- purulence noun
- purulently adverb
Etymology
Origin of purulent
1590–1600; < Latin pūrulentus, equivalent to pūr-, stem of pūs pus + -ulentus -ulent
Example Sentences
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"She had a string of purulent nasal discharge hanging from her right nostril and had an accumulation of green discharge in her eyes," the inspector’s report reads.
From Fox News
"She had a string of purulent nasal discharge hanging from her right nostril and had an accumulation of green discharge in her eyes," the report reads.
From Fox News
At that time, the sore was as wide as a grapefruit and had “copious purulent drainage, foul smell and bleeding,” Dorsey’s lawyers argue.
From Salon
Cyanosis was also a hallmark of the pneumonias associated with the Spanish flu – an observation that persuaded doctors writing in the Lancet in 1919 that it and purulent bronchitis had been “fundamentally the same condition”.
From The Guardian
“What came out of Italy – that was so purulent, so disgusting – felt like this wound that we stabbed the finger in and is so sick, that it needs to be healed,” Argento said.
From The Guardian
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