[syn: pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Purulence \Pu"ru*lence\, Purulency \Pu"ru*len*cy\, n. [L.
purulentia: cf. F. purulence.] (Med.)
The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of
pus; also, the pus itself. --Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
purulence
n 1: symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) [syn:
purulence, purulency]
2: a fluid product of inflammation [syn: pus, purulence,
suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "purulence":
chyle, colostrum, discharge, festering, gleet, humor, ichor,
lachryma, lactation, leukorrhea, lymph, matter, mattering, milk,
mucor, mucus, peccant humor, phlegm, pus, rankling, rheum, running,
saliva, sanies, serous fluid, serum, snot, suppuration, sweat,
tear, teardrop, the whites, urine