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Grammar : Verb
Spell : suhp-yuh-reyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsʌp yəˌreɪt



Définition of suppurate

Origin :
  • 1560s, from Latin suppuratus, past participle of suppurare (see suppuration). Related: Suppurated; suppurating.
  • verb fester
Example sentences :
  • THE more Buboes there are, so that they suppurate, the better.
  • Extract from : « Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 » by Nathaniel Hodges
  • Then they suppurate, and in the end amputation becomes necessary.
  • Extract from : « Camp Venture » by George Cary Eggleston
  • Wounds carefully protected from contact with impure air do not suppurate, and organic fluids do not putrefy.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • The glands do not suppurate, but the adenitis may remain as a chronic manifestation in scrofulous subjects.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • When the outer skin begins to suppurate, it should be removed with a pair of pincers, and the patch treated as an open wound.
  • Extract from : « Special Report on Diseases of the Horse » by United States Department of Agriculture
  • The skin may suppurate or slough more or less over the areas of greatest tension or where it is irritated by blows or pressure.
  • Extract from : « Special Report on Diseases of the Horse » by United States Department of Agriculture
  • In cases in which the mucous membrane is affected, the submaxillary lymph gland may also become enlarged and suppurate.
  • Extract from : « Special Report on Diseases of the Horse » by United States Department of Agriculture
  • In two only, out of those I attended while in Germany, they came on early in the Fever, but did not suppurate.
  • Extract from : « An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany » by Donald Monro
  • When boils progress to the stage where they appear about to "point" then stop and do not suppurate, Echinacea is the remedy.
  • Extract from : « New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers » by Various
  • Miss H. has small pustules and great inflammation of her arms, with but one pustule likely to suppurate.
  • Extract from : « Zoonomia, Vol. I » by Erasmus Darwin

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