Medicine. A substance that promotes suppuration. Obsolete.

A caustic medicinal preparation; the use of such a preparation, esp. to open and drain an abscess. Also: rupture of tissue (rare).

A medicinal preparation that causes or promotes suppuration. Now rare and chiefly historical.

Something that causes ripening or becomes ripe; a ripener.

A substance which promotes healthy suppuration in a wound or ulcer; digestive ointment (Unguentum terebinthinæ compositum).

Medicine. A medicine or treatment that ripens an abscess, boil, etc.; = suppurative, n. Obsolete.

†(a) = suppurative, n. (obsolete); (b) a person who is predisposed to pyogenic infections (rare).

= suppurative, n. Obsolete.

= suppurative, n.

= maturative, n.

= ruptory, n.