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Definition: Purulent |
PurulentAdjective1. Having undergone infection; "festering sores"; "an infected wound". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "purulent" was first used: 15th century. (references) |
Etymology: Purulent \Pu"ru*lent\, adjective. [Latin expression purulentus, from pus, puris, pus, matter: compare to the French expression purulent. See Pus.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Consisting of or containing pus; associated with the formation of or caused by pus. (references) |
Medicine | Consisting of, containing, associated with, or identified by the formation of pus. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PurulentSynonyms: festering (adj), infected (adj), pussy (adj), putrid (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Purulent |
| English words defined with "purulent": Aposteme ♦ felon ♦ Imposthume ♦ Mattery ♦ Otorrh/a ♦ Phlegmon, pox, purulence, purulency, Purulently, pyorrhea, pyorrhea alveolaris, pyorrhoea ♦ Riggs' disease, Rupia ♦ whitlow. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "purulent": Conjunctivitis, Bacterial, Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis ♦ Fusobacterium ♦ gonococcal conjunctivitis, gonorrheal ophthalmia ♦ hordeolum sty ♦ Otitis Media, Suppurative ♦ Periodontal Abscess, Prevotella intermedia, Pyoderma ♦ Stevens-Johnson syndrome, Streptodornase and Streptokinase ♦ Trichomonas Vaginitis. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "purulent": Mucopurulent. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Purulent" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (purulent), Dutch (purulent), French (mattery, purulent), German (purulent), Romanian (festering, foul, purulent, running, suppurative). |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Area of moderate purulent pneumonia. Credit: CDC. |  | Head opened at autopsy revealing purulent inflammation of leptomeninges beneath reflected dura. Credit: CDC. |
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| "Purulent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Purulent" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "purulent": purulent matter ♦ purulent pleurisy. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "purulent": muco-purulent. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
purulent | 27 |
purulent sputum | 2 |
purulent spermcanal | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "purulent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | متقيح (festering, mattery), صديدي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гноясал (foul, mattery, ulcerous), гноен (mattery, pyogenic, ulcered). (various references) | |
Chinese | 化". (various references) | |
Danish | purulent (suppurative). (various references) | |
Dutch | purulent (suppurative). (various references) | |
Finnish | märkivä (suppurative). (various references) | |
French | purulent. (various references) | |
German | purulent (suppurative), eitrig (suppurative, ulcerous, ulcerously). (various references) | |
Greek | πυώδησ (puriform), εμπυώδησ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ממ'ל (pyogenic, suppurant). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gennyes (crappy, mattery, pustulate, pustulous), gennyedő (festering, running), genny-. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bernanah (abscess, suppurate). (various references) | |
Italian | purulento (suppurative). (various references) | |
Manx | ingyragh (ichorous, mattery, pus-filled). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urulentpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | purulento (moist). (various references) | |
Romanian | purulent (festering, foul, running, suppurative). (various references) | |
Russian | гноящийся (suppurative), гнойный (mattery). (various references) | |
Spanish | purulento (suppurative). (various references) | |
Swedish | varig (ulcerous). (various references) | |
Turkish | irinli, iltihaplı (angry, inflammatory, mattery, running, sore). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гнійний (attery, impetiginous, pustular, pustulous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chảy mủ; như mủ. (various references) | |
Welsh | llinorog (eruptive, suppurating), crawnllyd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | purulentus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "purulent": seropurulent. (additional references) | |
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"Purulent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parlent, peruent, piurulent, prelent, purlent, puruent, turulent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "purulent" (pronounced 'Pu"ru*lent'): Acidulent, Attollent, Benevolent, Bivalent, Cinerulent, Convellent, Corpulent, Dedolent, flatulent, Florulent, fraudulent, Frustulent, Glent, indolent, insolent, luculent, Lutulent, Macilent, malevolent, Maltalent, monovalent, Mucopurulent, Muculent, Multivalent, Octavalent, Olent, Omniprevalent, Opulent, Pentavalent, Pestilent, Poculent, Polyvalent, Potulent, Precellent, Prevalent, Puberulent, Pulverulent, Quadrivalent, Quantivalent, Quinquivalent, redolent, Revellent, Rorulent, Sanguinolent, Sexavalent, Sexivalent, Slent, somnolent, Superexcellent, tetravalent. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-n-p-r-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: penult, punter, runlet, tuneup, turnup, unpure, untrue, upturn. | |
-3 letters: erupt, letup, lunet, prune, puler, tuner, unlet. | |
-4 letters: lent, lept, lune, lunt, lure, lute, nurl, pelt, pent, pert, pule, punt, pure, purl, rent, rule, rune, runt, tern, true, tule, tune, turn. | |
-5 letters: ern, let, leu, net, nut, pen, per, pet, pul, pun, pur, put, rep. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-n-p-r-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: puberulent. | |
+3 letters: pulverulent. | |
+4 letters: seropurulent, supernatural, uncapturable. | |
+5 letters: supernaturals, unspectacular, unsupportable. | |
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