- cause to ripen and discharge pus; "The oil suppurates the pustules"
- fester: ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering"
- (suppuration) festering: (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
- (suppuration) pus: a fluid product of inflammation
- Pus is a whitish-yellow, yellow or yellow-brown exudate produced by vertebrates during inflammatory pyogenic bacterial infections. ...
- To form or discharge pus
- (suppuration) Decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself
- (suppurating) (v) - festering, ulcering. suppurate (v), supperation (n)
- (Suppuration) Bacterial contamination of tissue exudate; pus.
- (SUPPURATION) [Gnoynoe] – state of metaphysical chaos. (Vladimir Sorokin, From texts and conversations held in the early 1980s).
- (Suppuration) producing or associated with the generation of pus, often involving an infection with pyogenic (pus-forming) bacteria.