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Suppuration

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a fluid product of inflammation wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of suppurating. countable, uncountable

    "by the Inflammation and Suppuration of the axillary, inguinal, and other Glands, or in beginning Gangrenes..."

  4. 4
    (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus wordnet

Etymology

First use appears c. 1425. From Latin suppūrātiō.

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