The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suppurative \Sup"pu*ra*tive\, a. [Cf. F. suppuratif.] Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.
Suppurative fever (Med.), py[ae]mia.
Suppurative \Sup"pu*ra*tive\, n. (Med.) A suppurative medicine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from medical Latin suppurativus, from suppurat-, stem of suppurare (see suppuration). As a noun from 1560s.
Wiktionary
a. (context medicine of a disease or medical condition English) Causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus. n. A medicine that causes suppuration.
WordNet
adj. relating to or characterized by suppuration [ant: nonsuppurative]
Usage examples of "suppurative".
Needles, pins, peanuts, fruit-stones, peas, grape-seeds, and many similar objects have been found in both normal and suppurative vermiform appendices.
The widespread granular lesions of the skin, the suppurative lymph nodes, the all-too-obviously painful perianal abscesses made diagnosis almost unavoidable.