purulent
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Is purulent a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (medicine) Consisting of pus.Examples: "Near-synonym: puriform"; "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 Scrophulous Tumors full of fœtid purulent Matter; with ſower frothy Ructations, with Canine Appetites and Crudeneſs of Digeſtion, beſides many others needleſs to mention."
2. (medicine) Leaking or seeping pus.Examples: "purulent inflammation"; "Close-up of two rats gnawing at a mutton bone, of the flies on the purulent eyelids of a small girl."Synonyms: pussy#Etymology_2, suppurant
Definition source: Wiktionary