PURULENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purulent mean? 

• PURULENT (adjective)
  The adjective PURULENT has 1 sense:

1. containing pus

  Familiarity information: PURULENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURULENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Containing pus

Synonyms:

purulent; pussy

Context example:

a purulent wound

Similar:

infected; septic (containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms)

Derivation:

purulence; purulency (symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus))

 Context examples 

An acute purulent bacterial infection that arises from the tissues that surround and support the teeth.

(Periodontal Abscess, NCI Thesaurus)

Fungi, necrosis of intraocular tumors, and retained intraocular foreign bodies often cause a purulent endophthalmitis.

(Endophthalmitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It is characterized by the formation of purulent and painful abscesses in the mouth, lungs and gastrointestinal tract.

(Actinomycosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Localized circumscribed purulent area of inflammation in the periodontal tissue.

(Periodontal Abscess, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

(Phlegmon, NCI Thesaurus)

Material, such as purulent and nonpurulent fluid, cells, or cellular debris, which has escaped from blood vessels and has been deposited in tissues or on tissue surfaces, usually as a result of inflammation.

(Exudate, NCI Thesaurus)

M. lacunata is a commensal organism of the human upper respiratory tract and most commonly associated with eye infections, but has been reported to cause rare invasive infections in humans, including endocarditis, septic arthritis, cellulitis, meningitis, bacteremia and purulent pericarditis.

(Moraxella lacunata, NCI Thesaurus)

It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)