Crossword clues for suppuration
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suppuration \Sup`pu*ra"tion\, n. [L. suppuratio: cf. F. suppuration.]
The act or process of suppurating.
The matter produced by suppuration; pus.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) Decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself.
WordNet
Usage examples of "suppuration".
Exposing blood vessels and medullary cavities to the air can lead to septic inflammation and suppuration, which can kill large pieces of bone.
Sometimes the inflammation extends to the deeper tissues, causing great pain, and even suppuration, resulting in the formation of an abscess.
Tonsillitis when the suppurating gland will not heal or, alternatively, to promote suppuration.
Cyrus Harding that he thought he ought first of all to stop the hemorrhage, but not close the two wounds, or cause their immediate cicatrization, for there had been internal perforation, and the suppuration must not be allowed to accumulate in the chest.
They passed the Grand Stand in the following order: Syphilis first, Chancre second, Bubo third, and Suppuration a bad fourth, closely followed by Unction, Black Wash, Lint, and Copaiba.
The beast had somehow managed to loosen the edges of the filmseal and, despite the force-screen over her corral, blood-suckers had attached themselves to the suppuration.
Given internally, it assists local action and prevents suppuration.
But in another two years at the outside, had it not come to my attention, the creeping penetration syndrome would have resulted in prefrontal lobe incision with the usual consequences of internal cerebral shield suppuration.
Scar tissue had formed already and there was no infection, and no suppurations, only a little clean blood where the new scar tissue had broken at the backs of her knees as she had knelt.
A land not to look after, a country in'abited by stinks and suppurations and malodorous creatures who are o' a vileness that shames the good earth.
Climatic change triggered an acceleration in metabolism, and the ferment of the two suns brought forth eructations from the veins of the world: tremors, volcanic eruptions, subsidences, fumaroles, immense suppurations of lava.
The surgeon laid Thur down on a trestle table, muttered a perfunctory-sounding spell against suppuration, and sewed die edges of the cut together with a curved needle while Thur, eyes crossed and teary, bit on a rag, his breath whistling through his teeth.