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Purulent
Purulent meaning
Consisting of pus. | Leaking or seeping pus.
Example sentences (2)
Weisbrod’s office said that Eddie Bernice Johnson’s orthopedic surgeon wrote in his record that Johnson began having “copious purulent drainage from the low lumbar incision” three days after the alleged incident, the Associated Press reports.
Cellulitis typically also has an erythematous reaction, but does not confer any purulent drainage.