suppurative

IPA: sʌpjˈʊrʌtɪv

noun

  • A medicine that causes suppuration.

adjective

  • (medicine, of a disease or medical condition) causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.
Advertisement

Examples of "suppurative" in Sentences

  • Chronic suppurative otitis media.
  • Suppurative inflammation of the portal vein.
  • He considered that suppurative arthritis was uncommon.
  • Then the “suppurative fever” diminished and disappeared.
  • Analysis of treatment of suppurative staphylococcal infections.
  • The term suppurative arthritis is a near synonym for septic arthritis.
  • Nephrectomy for chronic, unilateral suppurative pyleonephritis in cattle.
  • Cytological analysis of joint fluid often reveals sterile suppurative arthritis.
  • - Acute suppurative cellulitis: fever, malaise, gum swollen and very tender, with fluctuation.
  • Heat is suppurative, but not in all kinds of sores, but when it is, it furnishes the greatest test of their being free from danger.
  • - Shooting pains exacerbated by movements of the tongue and swallowing, with localized swelling, are due to a suppurative cellulitis.
  • - Congestive or suppurative pericoronitis, with pain, redness, and swelling of the gum, and sometimes pus, is caused by the eruption of teeth
  • Mr. F----, about sixty, was supposed to have the gout in his hand, which however suppurated, and it was then called the suppurative rheumatism.
  • It is possible that a slight non-suppurative infection, which does not prevent the union of tissues "per primam intentionem", may yet be sufficient to cause thrombosis.
  • There is still another variety, the suppurative, which is the most intense of all, and indicates the production of an abscess and the entire destruction of the tissue implicated.

Related Links

synonyms for suppurativedescribing words for suppurative
Advertisement
#AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz

© 2024 Copyright: WordPapa