purulencyn.

1612 P. Lowe Art Chyrurgerie ed. 2 V. xxiii. 175 If with these vlcers there be purulency and rottennes.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 115 The gall dropped into the eare with Womans milk, helps the purulencie thereof.

1697 J. Headrich Arcana Philosophia 99 We utterly disown their oppinion, who imputes this Disease to the Gall, and in their Books have dared to affirm, that in the Gall is so much purulency, as that it should discolour the whole Man.

1709 Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 414 I found by the Purulency and Stench of her Urine, that she had not only Stones and Gravel, but an Ulcer in one or both of her Kidneys.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 389 Consumptions are induc'd by Purulency in any of the other Viscera.

1793 J. Nott Hotwell Waters 64 The antiseptic power of marine acid..we also know, and how capable it is of preventing the action of purulency.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 773 The nearest approach to purulency.

1935 Lancet 12 Oct. 841/1 A progressive increase in the purulency of the cerebro-spinal fluid.

1984 Internat. Jrnl. Clin. Pharmacol., Therapy & Toxicol. 22 32 The sputum and its degree of purulency remained unchanged in most cases in all three groups.