Sentence examples for suppuration from inspiring English sources

In 1893 Finsen found that lengthy exposure of smallpox sufferers to the red light formed by exclusion of the violet end of the spectrum prevents the suppuration of the pustules, or formation of characteristic pockmarks.

These include healing and repair, suppuration, and chronic inflammation.

The process of pus formation, called suppuration, occurs when the agent that provoked the inflammation is difficult to eliminate.

The yellow saucers of suppuration covering his skin had to be dressed every four hours after he was rushed to hospital at Bari and then to Malta, where he needed three months to recover.

The most common cause of suppuration is infection with the pyogenic (pus-producing) bacteria, such as Staphylococcus and Streptococcus.

Infection was so prevalent that suppuration — the discharge of pus from a surgical wound — was thought to be a necessary part of healing.

Here, for instance, she is describing Jude's ruined legs: "Wounds open overnight: the suppuration, the sick, fishy scent, the little gash, like a foetus's mouth, that would appear burbling viscous, unidentifiable fluids".

His doctors made sixty-eight visits to Room 16 during Wilde's final weeks, as the symptoms became graver, making the following report: "There were significant cerebral disturbances stemming from an old suppuration of the right ear…The diagnosis of encephalitic meningitis must be made without doubt".

As first Shane Watson, then Clarke, then Steven Smith came and went, Australia's first innings threatened to turn carbuncular, like we were witnessing the re-suppuration of some wound (the top order collapse) long thought sutured into oblivion.

When her ailing husband appears, the narrator observes that "the waxy skin" around his nose "was blooming with small suppurations, some of which had formed red-and-white scabs".