SUPPURATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suppuration mean? 

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

1. (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus

2. a fluid product of inflammation

  Familiarity information: SUPPURATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPPURATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

festering; maturation; suppuration

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

activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Derivation:

suppurate (ripen and generate pus)

suppurate (cause to ripen and discharge pus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fluid product of inflammation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

festering; ichor; purulence; pus; sanies; suppuration

Hypernyms ("suppuration" 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 "suppuration"):

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

Derivation:

suppurate (ripen and generate pus)

suppurate (cause to ripen and discharge pus)