purulent

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Etymology

Latin purulentus, from pus, puris, pus, matter.

Adjective

purulent (comparative more purulent, superlative most purulent)

1. (medicine) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.

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Derived terms

• mucopurulent

Translations

consisting of pus

• Hungarian: gennyes (hu)

• Maori: taemataku (mi)
• Portuguese: purulento (pt) m