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purulent

pyoo rooh luhnt

  • s  containing pus
    a purulent wound

  • In his daymares, Bill is visited by beetles -- big ugly things, chatting away through purulent orifices -- that send him on a spy mission into the Tangier of his delirium.
  • Surgeon Kaye set to work to clean out what seemed like a purulent cyst, and in it he found a white maggot, almost an inch long.
  • Later in the year she was taken ill with what a doctor diagnosed as purulent appendicitis.
Quotes

  • Wole Soyinka in This Day
    While painting the picture of danger posed by the present development, Soyinka said: "The minimal requirement for the lancing of this purulent boil is to make examples, publicly and with swift deliberation. Even as the primarily concerned bodies -...
  • William Sears in Tehran Times
    The purulent post-nasal drip is the culprit,says William Sears, MD, also known as "America's Pediatrician," an associate clinical professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine.

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