suppurative

[suhp-yuh-rey-tiv]

adjective

1. suppurating; characterized by suppuration.

2. promoting suppuration.

noun

1. a medicine or application that promotes suppuration.

suppurative

/ ˈsʌpjʊrətɪv /

adjective

1. causing suppuration

noun

1. any suppurative drug

Other Word Forms

• nonsuppurative adjective
• postsuppurative adjective
• unsuppurative adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of suppurative¹

From the Medieval Latin word suppūrātīvus, dating back to 1535–45. See suppurate, -ive

Example Sentences

"The findings provide a significant advance in our understanding of lung inflammation in children with wheeze and suppurative lung disease," she said.

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Viserys was magnanimous in his initial forgiveness of Daemon and then demanding in his suppurative midnight lust.

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The ear had probably been saved from ulceration of the drum membrane, long-continued suppurative otitis, and perhaps from permanent impairment of hearing.

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Bacillinum, then, combines in its action all its constituent products, owing its efficacy to its suppurative microbes as well as its inclusion of Koch's bacillus.

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There was a question in men's minds as to whether nature worked better by primary union or by means of the suppurative process.

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