单词 | suppuration |
释义 | suppuration (once / 11119 pages) n Suppuration is the process of pus forming. If you can't remove a tiny splinter from your finger, over time some suppuration may occur around it. Use the noun suppuration when you need a nice clean medical term for the formation of pus, the white substance that sometimes oozes from a sore or a pimple. Suppuration can happen because of an infection or skin irritation. The Latin root is suppurare, "to form or discharge pus," from sub, "under," and pus, which literally means "matter from a sore," and figuratively, "bitterness or malice." WORD FAMILYsuppuration: suppurations+/suppurate: suppurated, suppurates, suppurating, suppuration, suppurative/suppurative: nonsuppurative USAGE EXAMPLESLearning about the body’s many excretions, secretions and suppurations in medical school, I realized that each medical specialty has its own essential effluent. Washington Post(Nov 22, 2016) The bird is slain and it lies before you, browned in its own suppurations. Washington Post(Nov 25, 2015) A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary—(2n...(2012) 1n (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus Syn|Hyper festering, maturation activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process an organic process that takes place in the body 2n a fluid product of inflammation Syn|Hypo|Hyper festering, ichor, purulence, pus, sanies gleet a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, liquid body substance the liquid parts of the body |
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