suppurating
present participle ofsuppurate
suppurate
verb[I]
medicalspecializeduk/ˈsʌp.jə.reɪt/us/ˈsʌp.jə.reɪt/(of aninjury, etc.) toformor give out athick,yellowliquidbecause ofinfection:
a suppuratingsore/wound
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Examplesofsuppurating
suppurating
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Suppuratingwounds are also a potential source of environmental contamination with infectious bacilli.
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He mentioned the case of a young man who was discharged when suffering from asuppuratingwound and had £2 a week disability pension.
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He, however, continued eating greedily, as if he were really hungry, and took no notice whatever of thesuppuratingabscess.
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What we are dealing with here is a sort ofsuppuratingswelling that breaks out from time to time.
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If they aresuppurating, the dressings are changed by the district nurse; if they are merely quiescent, they are changed by the home carer.
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He could not wear his artificial leg, because the stump wassuppurating, and he had to have a further operation to get rid of that.
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Is it any wonder that many of our overseas possessions are defaced bysuppuratingslums, dreadful poverty, and by disease, which could be prevented if economic conditions were improved?
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It is like asuppuratingwound.
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The parts of the body that were treated with the rays were burnt,suppurating.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The blister under the silver electrode healed, but the one under the zinc electrode produced the requiredsuppuratingsore.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A young girl went to the hospital they worked in, suffering at first only from a small woundsuppuratingdue to an infection.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It causes skin nodules, particularly on the head and upper forequarters, which often bleed profusely (summer bleeding) but then usually resolve, though occasionallysuppurating.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He also advocated and successfully practised the free incision of acutelysuppuratingjoints, which came into general use.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As scurvy advances, there can be open,suppuratingwounds, loss of teeth, jaundice, fever, neuropathy and death.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is used as incense in the treatment of measles and sometimes crushed and used as remedy forsuppuratingwounds.
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