purulence.

The presence or discharge of pus in infected tissue or fluid.

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Words that belong together

• visible purulence
• wound purulence

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The surgeon noted purulence around the incision.

Purulence seeped from the reopened wound.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.