purulent

Borrowed from Middle French purulent, from Latin pūrulentus, from pūs (“pus”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊəɹ(j)ʊlənt/, /ˈpjʊəɹələnt/

purulent (comparative more purulent, superlative most purulent)

1. (medicine) Consisting of pus.
2. Leaking or seeping pus.

   purulent inflammation.

   • 1948, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence:

     Close-up of two rats gnawing at a mutton bone, of the flies on the purulent eyelids of a small girl.

• mucopurulent
• necropurulent

• pussy
• suppurant

purulent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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purulent (feminine singular purulente, masculine plural purulents, feminine plural purulentes)

1. purulent