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What does suppuration mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) Decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself.
  2. (medicine) The act of suppurating.
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Carbuncles are clusters of furuncles connected subcutaneously, causing deeper suppuration and scarring.
The usually placid course pursued by echinococcus of the liver may be much modified by inflammation and suppuration.
When the eschars have become detached, suppuration exhausts the forces of the patient, and death takes place by asthenia.
Infection was so prevalent that suppuration — the discharge of pus from a surgical wound — was thought to be a necessary part of healing.
Separation of the necrotic tissue along the fascial planes with suppuration may occur.
It's better not to open the inner hoof from the lower part, unless a suppuration has already been formed.

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