0 present participle of suppurate --
1 (of an injury, etc.) to form or give out a thick, yellow liquid because of infection: --
It is used as incense in the treatment of measles and sometimes crushed and used as remedy for suppurating wounds.
As scurvy advances, there can be open, suppurating wounds, loss of teeth, jaundice, fever, neuropathy and death.
He also advocated and successfully practised the free incision of acutely suppurating joints, which came into general use.
It causes skin nodules, particularly on the head and upper forequarters, which often bleed profusely (summer bleeding) but then usually resolve, though occasionally suppurating.
A young girl went to the hospital they worked in, suffering at first only from a small wound suppurating due to an infection.
The blister under the silver electrode healed, but the one under the zinc electrode produced the required suppurating sore.
The parts of the body that were treated with the rays were burnt, suppurating.
It is like a suppurating wound.
