purulent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French purulent, from Latin pūrulentus, from pūs (“pus”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊəɹ(j)ʊlənt/, /ˈpjʊəɹələnt/

Adjective

purulent (comparative more purulent, superlative most purulent)

1. (medicine) Consisting of pus.
2. Leaking or seeping pus.

   purulent inflammation.

   • 1948, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence:

     Close-up of two rats gnawing at a mutton bone, of the flies on the purulent eyelids of a small girl.

Derived terms

• mucopurulent
• necropurulent

Translations

consisting of pus

• Catalan: purulent
• Finnish: märkivä (fi)
• French: purulent (fr)
• Galician: purulento
• German: eiterig (de), Eiter- (de)
• Hungarian: gennyes (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: angaíoch, angúil
• Italian: purulento (it)
• Maori: taemataku
• Portuguese: purulento (pt)
• Russian: гно́йный (ru) (gnójnyj)
• Spanish: purulento

See also

• pussy
• suppurant

References

“purulent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

purulent (feminine purulente, masculine plural purulents, feminine plural purulentes)

1. purulent