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101mortifying — adj 1. humiliating, humbling; shameful, disgraceful, Obs. reproachful; disreputable, disfavorable, discreditable. 2. belittling, derogatory, deprecatory, disparaging, depreciatory, demeaning, deflating. 3. confusing, perplexing, bewildering,… …
102purulent — adj 1. suppurating, gathering, festering, mattering, maturating, coming or drawing to a head; discharging, excreting, draining, running. 2. ulcerous, ulcerative, ulcerated, festered, furuncu lar, furunculous, cankerous, cankered; gangrenous,… …
103putrid — adj 1. rotten, decaying, purulent, decomposed; diseased, saprogenic, gangrenous, bad, Pathol. sphaculate, Pathol. necrotic, Pathol. mortified; rancid, carious, stagnant, maggoty, wormy, worm eaten; fetid, feculent, polluted, rank, Archaic.… …
104ulcerous — adj cankerous, cankered, ulcerative, ulcerated, festering, festered, Both Pathol. furuncular, furunculous, suppurating, suppurative; gangrenous, gangrened, mortified, morbid, Pathol. necrotic, Pathol. necrosed, Pathol. sphacelated; diseased,… …
105Phormia — n. a genus of non bloodsucking flies, commonly known as blowflies. The maggot of P. regina normally breeds in decaying meat but it has occasionally been found in suppurating wounds, giving rise to a type of myiasis …
106scrofuloderma — n. tuberculosis of the skin in which the skin breaks down over suppurating tuberculous glands, with the formation of irregular shaped ulcers with blue tinged edges. Treatment is with antituberculous drugs, to which scrofuloderma responds better… …
107actinomycosis — ac•tin•o•my•co•sis [[t]ækˌtɪn oʊ maɪˈkoʊ sɪs, ˌæk tə noʊ [/t]] n. pat vet an infectious, inflammatory disease caused by Actinomyces israelii in humans and A. bovis in domestic animals, and characterized by lumpy, often suppurating tumors, esp.… …
108gather — gath•er [[t]ˈgæð ər[/t]] v. t. 1) to bring together into one group, collection, or place; collect: to gather firewood; to gather supporters[/ex] 2) agr. to pick or harvest (any crop or natural yield) from its place of growth: to gather fruit[/ex] …
109gathering — gath•er•ing [[t]ˈgæð ər ɪŋ[/t]] n. 1) an assembly; meeting 2) an assemblage of people 3) a collection of anything 4) the act of a person or thing that gathers 5) something gathered together 6) a gather in cloth 7) an inflamed and suppurating… …
110purulent — pu•ru•lent [[t]ˈpyʊər ə lənt, ˈpyʊər yə [/t]] adj. 1) pat full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating 2) pat attended with suppuration: purulent appendicitis[/ex] 3) pat of the nature of or like pus • Etymology: 1590–1600; <… …
