Usually means: Formation of pus; infection process.
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  1. suppuration: Merriam-Webster
  2. suppuration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. suppuration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. suppuration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. suppuration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Suppuration, suppuration: Wordnik
  7. suppuration: Wiktionary
  8. suppuration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. suppuration: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. suppuration: Dictionary.com
  11. suppuration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Suppuration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Suppuration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. suppuration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. suppuration: Rhymezone
  16. Suppuration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. suppuration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. suppuration: FreeDictionary.org
  19. suppuration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. suppuration: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. suppuration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. suppuration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. suppuration: Medical dictionary
  7. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (suppuration)

▸ noun:  (medicine) Decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself.
▸ noun:  (medicine) The act of suppurating.

Similar:
pus, sanies, purulence, festering, ichor, pyopoiesis, infection, diapyesis, abscess, pyuria, more...

Opposite:
healing, recovery, repair

Phrases:
lamellar suppuration, more...

Adjectives:
chronic, acute, extensive, local, profuse, diffuse, continued, pulmonary, middle, intracranial, protracted

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Similar:
pus, sanies, purulence, festering, ichor, pyopoiesis, infection, diapyesis, abscess, pyuria, more...

Opposite:
healing, recovery, repair

Phrases:
lamellar suppuration, more...

Adjectives:
chronic, acute, extensive, local, profuse, diffuse, continued, pulmonary, middle, intracranial, protracted

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



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