Suppurating

ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ING².] That suppurates.

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1. Promoting suppuration.

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1612. Woodall, Surg. Mate, Wks. (1653), 88. A contused wound … will desire also suppurating medicines.

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1876. trans. von Ziemssen’s Cycl. Med., XI. 92. Mezereon, croton oil … and suppurating ointments of various kinds.

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2. Forming or secreting pus; attended or marked by suppuration.

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1647. May, Hist. Parl., I. vii. 77. Now we see what the sores are … let us be very carefull to draw out the cores of them, not to skin them over with a slight suppurating festring cure, least they breake out againe.

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1803. Med. Jrnl., IX. 85. To convert every recent wound into a suppurating sore.

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1843. R. J. Graves, Syst. Clin. Med., xxii. 266. Suppurating pneumonia. Ibid., xxix. 371. A suppurating tumour resembling a whitlow.

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1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 574. Suppurating corns.

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