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Definition: Purulence |
PurulenceNoun1. Symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus). 2. A fluid product of inflammation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "purulence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Synonyms: PurulenceSynonyms: festering (n), ichor (n), purulency (n), pus (n), sanies (n), suppuration (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Purulence |
| Non-English Usage: "Purulence" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (purulence). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
purulence | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "purulence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قيح (pus), تقيح (fester, suppurate, suppuration), صديد (pus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гной (discharge, matter, pus), загнояване (abscess). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | purulence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Eitrigkeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πύωση (suppuration), πύο (pus), εμπύωση (suppurative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מו'ליות, מו'ל" (abscess, discharge, pus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gennyedés (fester, festering, running). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ingyraght (gather, gathering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urulencepay нагноение (fester, gathering, maturation, suppuration). (various references) pus (dartre, matter, pus), purulencia. (various references) irinlenme, irin (discharge, fester, ichor, issue, matter, purulent matter, pus, pyo-, suppuration), iltihap (discharge, fester, gathering, ichor, inflammation, issue, matter, purulent matter, pus, suppuration), cerahat toplama (maturation). (various references) гній (atter, dung, manure, matter, muck, ordure, pus, soil), нагно"ння (fester, maturation, suppuration). (various references) tình trạng chảy mủ mủ (purulency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "purulence": purulences. (additional references) | |
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"Purulence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: purlance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-n-p-r-u-u" | |
-2 letters: cupeler, lucerne. | |
-3 letters: crenel, cupule, curule, lucern, pencel, uncurl, unpure, unreel, upcurl. | |
-4 letters: clepe, creel, creep, crepe, cruel, cupel, enure, leper, lucre, pence, preen, prune, puler, puree, repel, rupee, ulcer, uncle. | |
-5 letters: cepe, cere, clue, cure, curl, curn, ecru, erne, leer, luce, lune, lure, neep, nurl, peel, peen, peer, pele, pree, puce, pule, pure. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-n-p-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: purulences. | |
+3 letters: pronucleuses. | |
+5 letters: percutaneously, supermasculine. | |
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