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purulent, a.|ˈpjʊər(j)ʊlənt|
[ad. L. pūrulent-us, f. pūs, pūr- pus: see -lent. So in Fr.]
1. Consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling pus, or corrupt matter; also gen. corrupt, putrid (rare).
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 3/2 The purulent matter was suncke to the grownde off the wounde. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. 88 Streams and rivulets of sulphureous liquors, and purulent melted matter. 1713Swift Salamander 53 Wks. 1755 III. ii. 77 It spews a filthy froth Of matter purulent and white. 1815Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xii. (1818) I. 387 Some of the Œstri regale themselves on a purulent secretion with which they are surrounded. 1880W. MacCormac Antisept. Surg. 226 During the whole time was no purulent discharge.
b. fig.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. 77 Lord Fauconbridge is sent to sound their affections, and to draw the purulent matter to an head. 1727Pope, etc. Art of Sinking 75 A discharge of the peccant humour in exceeding purulent metre. 1836Fraser's Mag. XIV. 506 Deal forth assertions purulent of slander.
2. Full of, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating, festering.
1615Crooke Body of Man 387 If any small braunch of these vesselles be broken the Lungs become purulent and yeeld matter vp in coughing. 1688South Serm. Matt. xxii. 12 (1729) II. viii. 297 To probe and search a purulent old sore to the bottom. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 443 The treatment of simple, purulent, or healthy ulcers.
b. Characterized by or accompanied with the formation of pus.
1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 185 Purulent infiltration. 1879G. C. Harlan Eyesight v. 56 Purulent ophthalmia is one of the most dangerous diseases to which the eye is subject.
Hence ˈpurulently adv., in a purulent manner; ˈpurulentness, purulency.
1727Bailey vol. II, Purulentness, fulness of Matter or Corruption. a1834Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1849) I. 137 He shall be allowed to abuse as much and as purulently as he likes. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 425 Surrounding the purulently infiltrated part. |