Usually means: Producing or associated with pus.
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  1. suppurative: Merriam-Webster
  2. suppurative: Collins English Dictionary
  3. suppurative: Vocabulary.com
  4. suppurative: Wordnik
  5. suppurative: Wiktionary
  6. suppurative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. suppurative: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. suppurative: Dictionary.com
  9. Suppurative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Suppurative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. suppurative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. suppurative: Rhymezone
  13. Suppurative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. suppurative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. suppurative: FreeDictionary.org
  16. suppurative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. suppurative: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. suppurative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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  1. suppurative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. suppurative: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. suppurative: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (suppurative)

▸ adjective:  (medicine, of a disease or medical condition) causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.
▸ noun:  A medicine that causes suppuration.

Similar:
purulent, pyoid, purpurous, diapyetic, sanatory, pustular, exsudative, purpuric, exudative, uroseptic, more...

Opposite:
aseptic, non-purulent, non-infected

Types:
carbuncle, furuncle, boil, abscess, cyst, pimple, pustule, carbuncular, more...

Phrases:
suppurative arthritis, suppurative inflammation, suppurative thyroiditis, suppurative pneumonia, suppurative fever, more...

Adjectives:
chronic, acute, diffuse, recurrent, non, mixed, bilateral, severe, active, primary, uncomplicated

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Similar:
purulent, pyoid, purpurous, diapyetic, sanatory, pustular, exsudative, purpuric, exudative, uroseptic, more...

Opposite:
aseptic, non-purulent, non-infected

Types:
carbuncle, furuncle, boil, abscess, cyst, pimple, pustule, carbuncular, more...

Phrases:
suppurative arthritis, suppurative inflammation, suppurative thyroiditis, suppurative pneumonia, suppurative fever, suppurative phlebitis, suppurative nephritis, suppurative mastitis, more...

Adjectives:
chronic, acute, diffuse, recurrent, non, mixed, bilateral, severe, active, primary, uncomplicated

Colors:
    yellow,     green,     brown,     gray,     beige, more...



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