NOUN
- (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
- a fluid product of inflammation
How To Use suppuration In A Sentence
- In cerebritis, or inflammation of the interior of the brain, there is a tendency to softening and suppuration and the formation of abscesses. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
- In the majority of cases, however, suppuration occurs between the dura and the bone -- _suppurative pachymeningitis_ -- and leads to the formation of an _extra-dural abscess_ (Fig. 192). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
- A healthy suppuration will always set in after the exhibition of Apis, provided Sulphur or a psoric taint do not gain the ascendancy. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
- Separation of the necrotic tissue along the fascial planes with suppuration may occur.
- The ligature is a most satisfying immediate resource in stopping bleeding from an artery, but a septic ligature inevitably causes suppuration and almost inevitably leads to secondary hemorrhage. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
- External: promotes suppuration of boils, burns, pimples, leucoderma, white patches of skin. Find Me A Cure
- _ -- When suppuration ensues, the stitches should be removed, the wound opened up and purified with eusol, and packed. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
- In the postsurgical wards of the Glasgow infirmary, Lister had again and again seen an angry red margin begin to spread out from the wound and then the skin seemed to rot from inside out, often followed by fever, pus, and a swift death a bona fide “suppuration”. The Emperor of All Maladies
- The adenitis may sometimes cause suppuration and fistulization. Chapter 4
- When the pains in these regions do not cease, either with the discharge of the sputa, nor with alvine evacuations, nor from venesection, purging with medicine, nor a suitable regimen, it is to be held that they will terminate in suppurations. The Book Of Prognostics