Definitions for purulent

purulent pu·ru·lent

Spelling: [pyoo r-uh-luh nt, py
IPA: /ˈpyʊər ə lənt, ˈpyʊər yə-/

Purulent is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in purulent (elnprtuu).

Definitions for purulent

adjective

  1. full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating:
  2. attended with suppuration:
  3. of the nature of or like pus:

Origin of purulent

1590-1600; Latin pūrulentus, equivalent to pūr-, stem of pūs pus + -ulentus -ulent

Examples for purulent

The left still continues to discharge a purulent looking matter.

In purulent and chronic ophthalmia, ulcers on the cornea, &c.

Above all the doctor—the doctor and the purulent trash and garbage of his pharmacopoeia!

Phlebitis, or inflammation of a vein, may be plastic or purulent in nature.

purulent lepto-meningitis is usually accompanied by encephalitis.

The existence of a purulent discharge is no excuse for lack of cleanliness.

The exudation may, as in iritis, be serous, plastic or purulent.

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

Above all, the doctor—the doctor and the purulent trash and garbage of his pharmacopoeia!

purulent otitis media follows dentition in some infants, usually, if not invariably, of a scrofulous diathesis.

Word Value for purulent
Scrable

10

Words with friends

15

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