Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing pus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having relation to the formation of pus; producing or generating pus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Producing or generating pus.
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- adjective referring to
bacterial infections that makepus
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- adjective producing pus
Etymologies
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Examples
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a yellow or bluish tint, not putrid, diffused or enclosed by the so-called pyogenic membrane, not dangerous, especially if localized in cellular tissue, ready, if the expression may be used for rapid resorption; on the other hand the smallest abscess produced by this organism when associated with the septic vibrio takes on a thick gangrenous appearance, putrid, greenish and infiltrating the softened tissues.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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When I was 11, I had surgery on my right hand for a pyogenic granuloma.
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"It's a pyogenic granuloma," he said, and he wrote it out for me on a scrap of paper.
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Indeed, such a procedure would be objectionable, as it would stimulate the pyogenic membrane to unnecessary suppuration.
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The pyogenic membrane, like the granulations of a sore, which it resembles in nature, forms pus, not from any inherent disposition to do so, but only because it is subjected to some preternatural stimulation.
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The pyogenic membrane, like the granulations of a sore, which it resembles in nature, forms pus, not from any inherent disposition to do so, but only because it is subjected to some preternatural stimulation.
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Indeed, such a procedure would be objectionable, as it would stimulate the pyogenic membrane to unnecessary suppuration.
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But when the evacuation is effected on the antiseptic principle, the pyogenic membrane, freed from the influence of the former stimulus without the substitution of a new one, ceases to suppurate (like the granulations of a sore under metallic dressing), furnishing merely a trifling amount of clear serum, and, whether the opening be dependent or not, rapidly contracts and coalesces.
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But when the evacuation is effected on the antiseptic principle, the pyogenic membrane, freed from the influence of the former stimulus without the substitution of a new one, ceases to suppurate (like the granulations of a sore under metallic dressing), furnishing merely a trifling amount of clear serum, and, whether the opening be dependent or not, rapidly contracts and coalesces.
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These are usually grouped together under the title of "pyogenic bacteria," as distinct from those which only occasionally exercise a pyogenic rôle.
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