English Explanatory Dictionary

suppurative

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of a disease or medical condition, causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.
noun
  1. A medicine that causes suppuration.

Word forms

suppurative more suppurative most suppurative suppuratives

Etymology

From suppurate + -ive, from Modern Latin suppūrātīvus, from suppūrō.

Related words

suppurant suppuration

Derived words

antisuppurative chronic suppurative otitis media fibrinosuppurative necrosuppurative nonsuppurative postsuppurative presuppurative suppuratively unsuppurative
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