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ripen and generate pus
her wounds are festering -
cause to ripen and discharge pus
The oil suppurates the pustules
How To Use suppurate In A Sentence
- _ When a scirrhus affects any gland of no great extent or sensibility, it is, after a long period of time, liable to suppurate without inducing fever, like the indolent tumors of the conglobate or lymphatic glands above mentioned; whence collections of matter are often found after death both in men and other animals; as in the liver of swine, which have been fed with the grounds of fermented mixtures in the distilleries. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- The wound suppurated, and some general infection resulted, but six weeks later there was no evidence of fluid in the hip-joint, the limb was adducted and slightly rotated outwards, and some movement in each direction could be made without causing any great amount of pain. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
- But the wound should be made to suppurate as quickly as possible; for, thus the parts surrounding the wound would be the least disposed to inflammation, and would become the soonest clean; for the flesh which has been chopped and bruised by the blow, must necessarily suppurate and slough away. On Injuries Of The Head
- The difference between scrophulous tumours, and those before described, consists in this; that in those either glands of different kinds were diseased, or the mouths only of the lymphatic glands were become torpid; whereas in scrophula the conglobate glands themselves become tumid, and generally suppurate after a great length of time, when they acquire new sensibility. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- All I get are these sores in my soft palate that suppurate profusely. The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Spring Classics
- Over the centuries, the wounds which surgeons were tending, either as a result of injury or inflicted by themselves on their patients, would swell, redden, and suppurate with the discharge of pus.
- Left untreated, the abscesses suppurate ; the pus cannot escape from the body, and the malady spreads throughout the organism.
- Strangely enough, the wound in my remaining arm, which still suppurated, was seized with gangrene.
- Even a small nick in the skin, treated thus, could quickly suppurate into a lethal infection. The Emperor of All Maladies
- If a thrombus be formed in the opening, it will inflame and suppurate. On Ulcers