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Suppuration

noun
1.
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus.  Synonyms: festering, maturation.
2.
A fluid product of inflammation.  Synonyms: festering, ichor, purulence, pus, sanies.






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"Suppuration" Quotes from Famous Books



... sister Agnes died of consumption at the age of 16; and, as my father's mother and four of his brothers and sisters had died of this malady, it was supposed to be in the family. The only time I was kept out of school during the nine years at Miss Phin's was when I was 12 when I had a cough and suppuration of the glands of the neck. As this was the way in which Agnes's illness had begun, my parents were alarmed, though I had no idea of it. I was leeched and blistered and drugged; I was put into flannel for the only time in my life; I was sent away for change of air; but no ...
— An Autobiography • Catherine Helen Spence



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