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suppuration
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suppuration [‚səp·yə′rā·shən]
(medicine)
Pus formation.
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Though Huysman had always cultivated an exuberant relish for wounds and lesions and suppurations, here he surpassed himself (and I've translated only a snippet--the passage continues for almost three pages), but his ghoulish pleasure in depicting the insults of the flesh had, almost in spite of himself, a deeper purpose.
Delousing the soul by Ormsby, Eric / New Criterion
It celebrates the devotion of a young woman who married a poxy husband before she knew anything about his condition -- thereafter, according to Vives, she cared for those "parts of his body [from which] foul suppurations exuded.
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