purulent

• parulent (obsolete)

Borrowed from Middle French purulent, from Latin pūrulentus, from pūs (“pus”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊəɹ(j)ʊlənt/, /ˈpjʊəɹələnt/

purulent (comparative more purulent, superlative most purulent)

1. (medicine) Consisting of pus.
2. Leaking or seeping pus.

   purulent inflammation

   • 1948, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 248417:

     Close-up of two rats gnawing at a mutton bone, of the flies on the purulent eyelids of a small girl.

• pussy
• suppurant

purulent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Learned borrowing from Latin pūrulentus.

• IPA^(key): /py.ʁy.lɑ̃/

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purulent (feminine purulente, masculine plural purulents, feminine plural purulentes)

1. purulent

• pus

• “purulent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From French purulent, from Latin purulentus.

purulent m or n (feminine singular purulentă, masculine plural purulenți, feminine and neuter plural purulente)

1. purulent