purulent

Borrowed from Middle French purulent, from Latin pūrulentus, from pūs (“pus”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊəɹ(j)ʊlənt/, /ˈpjʊəɹələnt/

purulent (comparative more purulent, superlative most purulent)

1. (medicine) Consisting of pus.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of the Academy. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 82:

     It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; with ſtrong Convulſions, with grievous Contractions of the Nerves and Sinews in both Hands, but eſpecially the Right; with Spleen, Flatus, Vertigos and Deliriums; with Scrophulous Tumors full of fœtid purulent Matter; with ſower frothy Ructations, with Canine Appetites and Crudeneſs of Digeſtion, beſides many others needleſs to mention.

2. (medicine) Leaking or seeping pus.

   purulent inflammation

   • 1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC:

     Close-up of two rats gnawing at a mutton bone, of the flies on the purulent eyelids of a small girl.

• pussy
• suppurant

“purulent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Learned borrowing from Latin pūrulentus.

• IPA^(key): /py.ʁy.lɑ̃/

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purulent (feminine purulente, masculine plural purulents, feminine plural purulentes)

1. purulent

• pus

• “purulent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French purulent, from Latin purulentus.

purulent m or n (feminine singular purulentă, masculine plural purulenți, feminine and neuter plural purulente)

1. purulent