suppuration
(sʌpjʊəˈreɪʃən)
Also 6 -acyon.
[ad. L. suppūrātio, -ōnem, n. of action f. suppūrāre to suppurate. Cf. F. suppuration.]
1. The process or condition of suppurating; the formation or secretion of pus; the coming to a head of a boil or other eruption.
| 1541 Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 F ij b, Yf there be..vehement pulsacyon, in such wyse that there is no more hope of the curacyon of the sayd partyes without suppuracyon, all the auncyentes apply the sayd suppuratyfe medycynes. 1543 Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. xxi. 23 An aposteme..that commethe to suppuration by the ayde of medicines and nature. 1676 Wiseman Chirurg. Treat. iv. iv. 267, I applied again the Malagma, which caused a Suppuration of the remainder. 1732 Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments, etc. (1735) 342 The Inflammation ends in a Suppuration and an Abscess in the Lungs. 1797 M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 79 When inflammation of the lungs terminates in suppuration. 1868 Darwin Anim. & Pl. xii. II. 12 A cow lost a horn by suppuration. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 762 The suppuration of acne spots. |
† 2. A suppurating or suppurated boil, sore, etc.
| 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 57 One that had a suppuration in his chist. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts 259 The dung..being applyed to the suppurations. 1658 Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1105 They will concoct the Impostumes and suppurations of the breasts. |