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Definition of Purulency
1. Noun. Symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus).
Generic synonyms: Symptom
Group relationships: Abscess
Derivative terms: Purulent, Purulent
Definition of Purulency
1. Noun. (rare) purulence ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Purulency
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purulency
Literary usage of Purulency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutic Gazette (1904)
"... instances in which its early and proper use prevented purulency of the discharge
throughout the entire course. CONTRAINDICATIONS TO MATERNAL FEEDING. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"This operation should always precede any form of radical operation on the mastoid,
as the former will generally cure the chronic purulency and prevent ..."
3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1897)
"Most of the cases (12) presented the ordinary symptoms of chronic catarrh of the
middle-ear, without symptoms of previous purulency. Three cases, however ..."
4. A System of oral surgery: Being a Treatise on the Diseases and Surgery of by James Edmund Garretson (1884)
"This diathesis, as may be inferred, predisposes to antral purulency and ulcération.
To understand the local condition thus induced, it is only necessary to ..."
5. A Text-book on Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat by Charles Henry Burnett (1901)
"Patients with attic suppuration are more apt to suffer from dizziness than those
with purulency in the atrium, because in the former instance the ..."
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