Suppurative
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Suppurative is an adjective meaning (medicine, pathology) Of a disease or medical condition, causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.
Meaning
(medicine, pathology) Of a disease or medical condition, causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.
More Meanings
- A medicine that causes suppuration.
Word Forms
- suppuratives
Antonyms for suppurative
Common opposites include nonsuppurative.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pylephlebitis, purulent, pyoid, purpurous, diapyetic, sanatory.
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