suppuration's Usage Examples:

Thus Krawkow and Nowak, employing the frequent subcutaneous injection of the usual organisms of suppuration, have induced in the fowl the deposition within the tissues of a homogeneous substance giving the colour reactions of true amyloid.

Acute inflammation of various types, suppuration, granulation-tissue formation, 'c.

A number of interesting experiments, designed to test the relationship between the condition of suppuration and the production of amyloid, have been made of late years.

Thus the organisms of suppuration, tubercle, glanders, diphtheria, typhoid fever, cholera, tetanus, and others were identified, and their relationship to the individual diseases established.

Nowak, however, found later that he could generate it where the turpentine failed to induce suppuration; he believes that it may arise quite apart from the influence of the organisms of suppuration, that it is not a biological product of the micro-organisms of disease, and also that it has nothing to do with emaciation.

Within a few days recovery usually occurs somewhat suddenly, but death may occur from the severe depression, or from the secondary effects of suppuration.

The cells found in an inflamed part are undoubtedly drawn from both sources, but while the blood leucocytes have a great tendency to become fatty and to die, those cells derived from the fixed tissues incline more to organization; the latter are, in fact, the source of the cicatrix which follows upon the cessation of suppuration (fig.

But when the hepatitis is of septic origin, suppuration is likely to occur, the result being an hepatic abscess.

Synonyms:

ichor, humor, liquid body substance, pus, gleet, body fluid, festering, humour, bodily fluid, sanies, purulence,

Antonyms:

good humor, ill humor, assembly, discontinuation, inactivity,