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Lexicographically close words:
pursy; purtended; purtier; purtiest; purty; purus; purvey; purveyance; purveyaunce; purveyd
  1. It appears that, about two years ago, he had a bloody purulent discharge from both ears.

  2. Blebs larger and more numerous on hands and arms; purulent matter oozing out from some of the pustules.

  3. Sometimes there is a patchy excoriation of the glans penis, attended with a purulent discharge.

  4. The ulceration of the mamma was of the size of a five frank piece, unequal and gray, and gave issue to an ichorous and foetid purulent matter.

  5. The left still continues to discharge a purulent looking matter.

  6. In all the cases where gastrotomy has been performed some time after the child's death, little or no trace of the placenta has been found, but in its place a quantity of ill-conditioned purulent matter, which was excessively fetid.

  7. Ordinarily, this false membrane is thrown off with a purulent discharge, which is the lochia.

  8. The abdomen had subsided still farther; early in February she passed a quantity of putrid purulent matter from the rectum, after which the abdomen diminished considerably.

  9. But, as even the best pus when retained too long becomes acrid and putrefies, the same thing will hold with regard to the purulent evacuations after delivery, if they should be kept back.

  10. But if that purulent matter does not come out, but being sucked back should be mixed with the humours, it may, being brought to the viscera by a bad metastasis of the morbid matter, give occasion to dangerous disorders.

  11. In many of the cases, purulent deposites took place in the joints and in the calves of the legs, and in one case there was destructive inflammation of the eye.

  12. Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter.

  13. A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.

  14. Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance.

  15. Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

  16. In two kinds of pulmonary consumption this lichen best promotes a cure-that with active bleeding from the lungs, and that with profuse purulent expectoration.

  17. When the Complication of Purulent Arthritis has arisen, the surgeon has to admit to himself, reluctantly no doubt, that the case is often beyond hope of aid from him.

  18. See also Treatment of Purulent Arthritis in Chapter XII.

  19. Finally it breaks at one or more spots, and there exudes from the opening or openings a purulent and oftentimes sanious discharge, which coagulates about each fistula after the manner of ordinary synovia.

  20. When the fracture is complicated by the formation of pus, as in the case of prick, then the case, with the attendant purulent synovitis and arthritis, is even more hopeless still.

  21. Complications--(a) Diffuse Purulent Inflammation of the Sub-coronary Tissue.

  22. The discharge continually oozing from these keeps the heel constantly wet with a thick purulent discharge, which is nearly always blood-stained, and very often foetid.

  23. This may arise either as a result of spreading purulent infection of the coronary cushion, or as a result of direct injury immediately over it.

  24. Instead of the glistening and clear appearance it ordinarily presents, its glenoid cartilage is found to be showing hæmorrhagic or even purulent spots of necrosis.

  25. The treatment of ossified cartilage will be found under treatment of side-bones, and the methods of dealing with penetrated articulation and purulent arthritis are treated of in Chapter XII.

  26. When the disease is of the meningeal type, symptoms of general purulent lepto-meningitis assert themselves, and soon come to dominate the clinical picture.

  27. Acute suppuration may pass into the chronic variety, which is characterised by a perforation of the tympanic membrane, a persistent purulent or muco-purulent discharge from the middle ear, and a certain amount of deafness.

  28. It may be muco-purulent and stringy, or purulent and of thicker consistence.

  29. A purulent discharge may be complained of from one or both nostrils.

  30. The surface is smooth, of a greyish colour, and exudes a small quantity of sero-purulent fluid.

  31. A yellow appearance of the lower part of the membrane, limited above by a dark line stretching across the drum-head, is indicative of sero-purulent exudation into the tympanum.

  32. In infants, a purulent discharge from both nostrils may be due to gonorrhœal infection or to inherited syphilis.

  33. The soft clot that forms adheres to the inflamed wall of the sinus, and, being infected with pyogenic bacteria, it soon undergoes purulent disintegration.

  34. A muco-purulent discharge escapes from within the free edge of the gum and alveolus.

  35. Micturition continued frequent, with purulent cystitis for one month.

  36. I cannot say that suppuration never followed the retention of a bullet, since in two of the instances where I saw such removed they lay in a small cavity containing at any rate a 'purulent fluid.

  37. To return to Bacillinum, I consider this remedy as a powerful moderator of the muco-purulent secretion of consumption.

  38. In a few cases it has caused soreness and increased muco-purulent discharge, due, I think, to excessive use.

  39. It is a combination of toxins, then, which constitutes Bacillinum, and especially of toxins of a purulent nature.

  40. The best results have been obtained in cases of uric or phosphatic gravel, of chronic cystitis, whether simple or consecutive to gravel, and of mucous or muco-purulent catarrh.

  41. If the fluid is of a purulent character, the indication is in favor of its immediate discharge.

  42. Balsam of copaiba (1 dram daily) may also be given with advantage after the purulent discharge has appeared.

  43. Wounds caused by nails, gravel, or any other foreign body which may have lodged in the sole of the foot should be opened at once from below, so as to allow free exit to all purulent discharges.

  44. Or, on the other hand, if the abscess has existed for some time without a rupture, its contents will frequently be found to consist of dried purulent matter, firm and dense, and the walls surrounding the mass will be found greatly thickened.

  45. With the development of the mucous râles, to be heard on auscultation, we have a more purulent discharge from the nostrils, similar to that of a chronic or subacute bronchitis.

  46. There is then either a bloody or serous tumor or a purulent collection, and following the puncture of its walls with the knife there will be an escape of blood, serum, or pus, as the case may be, in variable quantities.

  47. Irritation of the mucous membrane of the nose causes severe coryza with purulent discharge.

  48. In these cases the fetus retained its natural form, but in one reported by Gohier the bones only were left in the womb amid a mass of apparently purulent matter.

  49. The farcy ulcers may retain their specific form for a considerable time--days or even weeks--but eventually the discharge becomes purulent in character and assumes the appearance of healthy matter.

  50. This is especially true of purulent conjunctivitis when primarily caused by an infectious agent.

  51. This is followed by watery nasal secretions that become heavy and purulent within a few days.

  52. Animals suffering from the infectious or purulent form of inflammation should be separated from the other animals.

  53. In the purulent form the discharge is heavy and pus-like.

  54. Upon the next day there were several hemorrhagico-purulent stools, the urine was profuse and voided without pain.

  55. This condition lasted nearly twenty-four hours; then a very large and hard stool, followed by a thin one of hemorrhagico-purulent character was discharged and simultaneously a decided change took place.

  56. Note next the contents of the pericardium and whether there is any serous, fibrous, or purulent exudation.

  57. By the fourth or fifth day the surface has begun to granulate, and there may be a more or less profuse purulent discharge from the surface.

  58. By squeezing the lung between the fingers an inflammation of the smaller bronchi (bronchitis) can be recognized by the purulent fluid which will exude at different points.

  59. Thus, the mucous membrane of the nostrils, from which flows a purulent and fetid mucus, is sometimes ulcerated and excoriated.

  60. The eyes, nose, and mouth do not discharge those purulent secretions seen in typhus; the diarrhoea only comes on at the end, being less frequent and fetid.

  61. The secretions stop up the various channels and cavities; they lodge within them; they undergo a putrid decomposition, and pass out with difficulty in the form of a purulent and bloody flux, in the highest degree infectious.

  62. Finally, the purulent boils must be opened, and dressed with stimulating ointment.

  63. The purulent or emphysematous tumours were cut.

  64. Should any sores form on the skin, or should they arise from the opening of purulent deposits, dress them with the following ointment-- Acetate of copper 1/2 a drachm.

  65. Gases, and occasionally purulent deposits, are developed in the cellular tissue beneath the skin.

  66. Defn: Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

  67. Defn: A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.

  68. The base of the ulcer is covered with imperfectly formed, soft, œdematous granulations, which give off a thin sero-purulent discharge.

  69. It may cause a purulent discharge, and in some cases it has been extruded after sloughing of the overlying soft parts.

  70. It is essentially of the same nature as the process of suppuration, only that the purulent discharge, instead of collecting in a closed cavity and forming an abscess, at once escapes on the surface.

  71. It may become purulent as a result of infection, and this may be the starting-point of lymphangitis or cellulitis.

  72. There is a superficial variety resulting from the extension of a purulent blister beneath the nail lifting it up from its bed, the pus being visible through the nail.

  73. They are found mixed with other organisms in the purulent discharge from the sore, and are chiefly arranged in small groups or in short chains.

  74. When the primary lesion has taken the form of an open ulcer with purulent discharge, or has sloughed, there is a permanent scar.

  75. They appear as pustules, which are rapidly converted into small, acutely inflamed ulcers with sharply cut, irregular margins, which bleed easily and yield an abundant yellow purulent discharge.

  76. The changes observed are those of intense engorgement of the marrow, going on to greenish-yellow purulent infiltration.

  77. When the cocci gain access to the joint, the lesion assumes the characters of a purulent arthritis, which, from its frequency during the earlier years of life, has been called the acute arthritis of infants.

  78. This may be a wound or a purulent blister, and the streptococcus pyogenes is the organism most frequently present.

  79. A purulent fetid matter is discharged from the cavity.

  80. The belly is frequently filled with water, or purulent matter; the peritoneum is everywhere thickened, and the bowels adhere together by means of an unnatural growth.

  81. If the pus is white, creamy, and comparatively inoffensive in odor, the secondary formations in internal organs and joints are mainly of the same purulent character (secondary abscesses).

  82. The secretion becomes more purulent and is apt to dry in crusts about the root of the tail.

  83. One is erysipelatoid; another purulent infection with the tendency to secondary abscesses in the joints, liver, lungs, etc.

  84. From these a milky, purulent fluid may often be expressed.

  85. The swellings rupture and discharge a purulent yellowish fluid, which contains the causative organism.

  86. There is very high fever, accelerated breathing and pulse, and there is swelling and purulent discharge (often fetid) from the navel.

  87. It is accompanied with a little purulent discharge from the prepuce, itching, and difficulty in urinating.

  88. A muco-purulent or purulent secretion can visually be pressed out from between the papillomatous elevations.

  89. The bullous eruption consists of variously-sized, more or less purulent blebs, and is usually met with at or immediately following birth.

  90. The surface is cribriform, and a purulent secretion may be pressed out from follicular openings.

  91. The prelate, awakened by these terrific appearances, as at the moment he grew pale at the purulent matter, so afterwards he hailed the truth of the prediction.

  92. Joyous health followed his healing hand: the lurid skin opened, so that worms flowed out with the purulent matter, and the tumour subsided.

  93. A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process.

  94. An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter.

  95. In the cases just alluded to, where I did not succeed in giving the disease constitutionally, the experiment was made with matter taken in a purulent state from a pustule on the nipple of a cow.

  96. There was purulent pleurisy with a considerable pocket of pus, and purulent false membranes on the walls of the pleura.

  97. By a similar procedure the effects of the anthrax bacteridium and the microbe of pus may be combined and the two diseases may be superposed, so as to obtain a purulent anthrax or an anthracoid purulent infection.

  98. These sacs contain purulent matter, of all shades and odours, and identical with that which the animal coughed up.

  99. Following infection they may become purulent, resulting in the inguinal buboes so frequently mentioned by the older authors,[31] or in the purulent mesenteric nodes associated with intestinal ulceration.

  100. We found the glands under their arm-pits much enlarged and surrounded with purulent matter, as well as the muscles of their arms and thighs.

  101. Subpleural hemorrhages, thickening of the pleura, purulent or fibrinous pleurisy are common lesions.

  102. For the contagious matter consists in the mucous or purulent discharge from the membrane which lines the intestines; and not from the febrile perspiration, or breath of the patients.

  103. And secondly, that in hectic fever a part of the purulent matter is absorbed; or acts on the surface of the ulcer; as variolous matter affects the inoculated part of the arm.

  104. Another termination of inflammation is in gangrene, but this belongs to the inflammation of the external skin; as the production of purulent matter belongs to inflammation of the internal or mucous membranes.

  105. After the cancer becomes an open ulcer of some extent, a purulent fever supervenes, as from other open ulcers, and gradually destroys the patient.

  106. The consequence of which, after a hard labour, is probably the puerperal fever, and in scrophulous habits a fatal purulent fever, or hopeless consumption.

  107. For it is not acids floating in the air, but the oxygen or acidifying principle, which injures or enlarges pulmonary ulcers by combining with the purulent matter.

  108. The action of the air on ulcers, as we have already shewn, increases the acrimony of the purulent matter, and even converts it into a weaker kind of contagious matter; that is, to a material inducing fever.


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    Other words:
    bloody; festering; filthy; humoral; lachrymal; purulent; rheumy; serous