suppuration
IPA: sʌpɝˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (medicine) Decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself.
- (medicine) The act of suppurating.
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Examples of "suppuration" in Sentences
- “A suppuration of blood,” Bennett called his case.
- Leukemia, then, was not a suppuration of blood, but neoplasia of blood.
- Healing then occurs by granulation or suppuration, which is termed healing by second intention.
- The analogy between this phenomenon and what happens when a man has a splinter that causes inflammation and suppuration is extraordinary.
- And if your stupid little malware gets on my PC again, I hope the suppuration spreads up your legs until it reaches areas more vital than toes.
- When an instrument is introduced through an intractable stricture, and is left there either for some hours, or for some days, to excite what is called "suppuration" of the stricture. [
- When the happy ending of rapid resolution is denied us, then, in addition to the condition we have described as suppuration, we may meet with one or other of the following complications:
- In the postsurgical wards of the Glasgow infirmary, Lister had again and again seen an angry red margin begin to spread out from the wound and then the skin seemed to rot from inside out, often followed by fever, pus, and a swift death a bona fide “suppuration”.
- _ A caries of the bones may be termed a suppuration of them; it differs from the above, as it generally is occasioned by some external injury, as in decaying teeth; or by venereal virus, as in nodes on the tibia; or by other matter derived to the bone in malignant fevers; and is not confined to the ends of them.
- Yet to arrive at this new era, cancer biologists would again need to circle back to old observations—to the peculiar illness that John Bennett had called a “suppuration of blood,” that Virchow had reclassified as weisses Blut in 1847, and that later researchers had again reclassified as chronic myeloid leukemia or CML.
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