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How To Use suppurate In A Sentence

• Even a small nick in the skin, treated thus, could quickly suppurate into a lethal infection. The Emperor of All Maladies
• I always enjoy the comments more when I have to look up words but I might have been able to get through the day without knowing the definition of suppurate. The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Spring Classics
• Scot, "Evans is the chief anxiety right now; his cuts and wounds suppurate, his nose looks very bad, and altogether he shows considerable signs of being played out. Chronology of Amundsen and Scott Expeditions
• Blocking up of the outlet of the sebaceous gland (comedo), which is usually the beginning of an acne lesion, may cause a moderate degree of hyperæmia and inflammation, and a slight elevation, with a central yellowish or blackish point results -- the lesion of _acne punctata_; if the inflammation is of a higher grade or progresses, the elevation is reddened and more prominent -- _acne papulosa_; if the inflammatory action continues, the interior or central portion of the papule suppurates and Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
• His bow lost its spring but his wound still suppurated.
• And the flesh will shoot up and grow below the more quickly, and the pieces of bone ascend, if one will get the wound to suppurate and make it clean as quickly as possible. On Injuries Of The Head
• The oil suppurates the pustules
• She doesn't know what's in her, what worm or parasite causes her to suppurate like this, part of her pancreas, part of her bowel; there's that moment of hesitation, that meniscoid pause in the process of boiling up, before it swells over the lip of the toilet - Rick Moody: The Diviners (Excerpt)
• If a thrombus be formed in the opening, it will inflame and suppurate. On Ulcers
• _ When a scirrhus affects any gland of no great extent or sensibility, it is, after a long period of time, liable to suppurate without inducing fever, like the indolent tumors of the conglobate or lymphatic glands above mentioned; whence collections of matter are often found after death both in men and other animals; as in the liver of swine, which have been fed with the grounds of fermented mixtures in the distilleries. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life