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What does purulent mean?

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Adjective
  1. (medicine) Consisting of pus.
  2. Leaking or seeping pus.
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Initially, patients present with a nonspecific rhinitis, which evolves into purulent, fetid rhinorrhea and crusting.
In such outbreaks, pneumococcal infections have included sepsis, meningitis, purulent conjunctivitis, recurrent otitis media and sinusitis.
The presence of purulent nasal discharge is more likely to result in a physician's prescribing an antibiotic for a patient with acute bronchitis.
Histologically, no cardial brain abscesses show purulent exudate surrounded by variable amounts of fibrosis.
There was swelling, tenderness, erythema, and slight purulent discharge from the lesion.
In most samples, this resulted in a clear separation of mucoid samples from purulent ones.

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