purulence
101matter — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. substance, material; subject, topic, business; affair; cause, ground; predicament, difficulty. v. i. signify, import; count. See importance, thought. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Substance] Syn. body,… …
102purulent — pu|ru|lent [ˈpjuərələnt US ˈpjur ] adj technical [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: purulentus, from pus; PUS] containing or producing ↑pus >purulence n [U] …
103pus — n. Purulence, matter, purulent matter …
104purulency — n. See purulence …
105matter — I. n. 1. Substance, body. 2. Sense, substance. 3. Good sense, substance. 4. Trouble, cause of distress, difficulty. 5. Thing. 6. Indefinite amount, quantity, or portion. 7. Stuff, material, raw material …
106purulent — adjective technical containing or producing pus purulence noun (U) …
107matter — n 1. substance, material, stuff, materiality, medium, something, body; protoplasm, plasma, element; flesh, meat, marrow, sum and substance. 2. pus, suppuration, purulence, discharge; ooze, juice, sap, latex, milk; mucus, phlegm, grume, gore; All… …
108pus — n purulence, purulent matter, Biol. humor, Archaic. peccant humor or matter; suppuration, puru lency, pussiness, festering, running, mattering, rankling; discharge, excretion, fluid, Med. rheum, Pathol. ichor, Pathol. sanies, Pathol. gleet,… …
109rot — v 1. decay, decompose, putrefy, fester, spoil, go bad; mold, molder, rust; suppurate, Pathol. gangrene, Pathol. mortify. 2. deteriorate, disintegrate, fall apart, come apart, go to pieces, crumble; degenerate, retrograde. 3. eat away, eat at,… …
110suppuration — n 1. festering, gathering, mattering, maturating, ripening, coming or drawing to a head; discharging, excreting, running, draining, weeping, rankling. 2. pus, pussiness, purulence, purulency, purulent matter, Biol. humor, Archaic. peccant humor… …
