PURULENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purulence mean? 

• PURULENCE (noun)
  The noun PURULENCE has 2 senses:

1. symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus)

2. a fluid product of inflammation

  Familiarity information: PURULENCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURULENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

purulence; purulency

Hypernyms ("purulence" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Holonyms ("purulence" is a part of...):

abscess (symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue)

Derivation:

purulent (containing pus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fluid product of inflammation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

festering; ichor; purulence; pus; sanies; suppuration

Hypernyms ("purulence" is a kind of...):

bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance (the liquid parts of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "purulence"):

gleet (a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea)