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Purulence

Definition: Purulence

Purulence

Noun

1. 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: Purulence

Synonyms: festering (n), ichor (n), purulency (n), pus (n), sanies (n), suppuration (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Purulence

Non-English Usage: "Purulence" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (purulence).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: 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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

purulence

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Purulence

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

   

Russian 

  

нагноение (fester, gathering, maturation, suppuration). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pus (dartre, matter, pus), purulencia. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

гній (atter, dung, manure, matter, muck, ordure, pus, soil), нагно"ння (fester, maturation, suppuration). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tình trạng chảy mủ mủ (purulency). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Purulence

Derivations

Words beginning with "purulence": purulences. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Purulence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: purlance. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Purulence

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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