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Definition of Suppurative
1. Adjective. Relating to or characterized by suppuration.
Definition of Suppurative
1. a. Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.
2. n. A suppurative medicine.
Definition of Suppurative
1. Adjective. (context: medicine of a disease or medical condition) Causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus. ¹
2. Noun. A medicine that causes suppuration. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suppurative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppurative
Literary usage of Suppurative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1912)
"In rare instances suppurative cholangitis occurs in the acute infections, as
pneumonia ... The symptoms of suppurative cholangitis are usually very severe. ..."
2. Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear by William Lincoln Ballenger (1908)
"ACUTE suppurative OTITIS MEDIA. THIS type of inflammation of the middle ear is
characterized by marked hyperemia of the mucous membrane of the middle ear, ..."
3. Diseases of the Ear by Philip D. Kerrison (1921)
"Diffuse suppurative labyrinthitis may become quiescent and, ... On the other
hand, the suppurative process may remain quiescent during many years and then ..."
4. Diseases of the Ear by Philip Davie Kerrison (1913)
"Diffuse suppurative labyrinthitis may become quiescent and, ... On the other
hand, the suppurative process may remain quiescent during many years and then ..."
5. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint, William Henry Welch (1886)
"suppurative nephritis is caused by the presence in the kidney of microorganisms
capable of exciting suppuration. These organisms usually are micrococci, ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1853)
"Of course, " suppurative derivation," in whatever form induced, could have but
slight effect over general systemic aberrations from health, ..."
7. Diseases of the stomach, intestines, and pancreas by Robert Coleman Kemp (1912)
"There may be a diffuse suppurative process of the gland or multiple small ...
suppurative pancreatitis may be secondary to hem- orrhagic necrosis of the ..."
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