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Meaning of "purulency" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PURULENCY

purulency  [ˈpjʊərʊlənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PURULENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Purulency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PURULENCY


chaplaincy
ˈtʃæplənsɪ
corpulency
ˈkɔːpjʊlənsɪ
covalency
kəʊˈveɪlənsɪ
equivalency
ˌɛkwɪˈveɪlənsɪ
Excellency
ˈɛksələnsɪ
feculency
ˈfɛkjʊlənsɪ
flatulency
ˈflætʃʊlənsɪ
flocculency
ˈflɒkjʊlənsɪ
fraudulency
ˈfrɔːdjʊlənsɪ
opulency
ˈɒpjʊlənsɪ
petulancy
ˈpɛtjʊlənsɪ
postulancy
ˈpɒstjʊlənsɪ
repellency
rɪˈpelənsɪ
stimulancy
ˈstɪmjʊlənsɪ
succulency
ˈsʌkjʊlənsɪ
truculency
ˈtrʌkjʊlənsɪ
turbulency
ˈtɜːbjʊlənsɪ
undulancy
ˈʌndjʊlənsɪ
valency
ˈveɪlənsɪ
virulency
ˈvɪrjʊlənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PURULENCY

pursual
pursuance
pursuant
pursuantly
pursue
pursuer
pursuing
pursuingly
pursuit
pursuit plane
pursuivant
pursy
purtenance
purty
purulence
purulent
purulently
purvey
purveyance
purview

WORDS THAT END LIKE PURULENCY

agency
ambivalency
bivalency
electrovalency
equipollency
indolency
monovalency
multivalency
pentavalency
polyvalency
prepollency
prevalency
quadrivalency
quinquevalency
redolency
sanguinolency
somnolency
tervalency
tetravalency
trivalency
univalency

Synonyms and antonyms of purulency in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «purulency» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PURULENCY

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The translations of purulency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «purulency» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

purulency
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

purulency
570 millions of speakers

English

purulency
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

purulency
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

purulency
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

purulency
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

purulency
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সপূঁযতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Purulency
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kemuliaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Eiter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

purulency
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

purulency
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Purulency
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

purulency
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

purulency
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भरमसाट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

purulency
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Purulency
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

purulency
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

purulency
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

purulency
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

purulency
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

purulency
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

purulency
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

purulency
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of purulency

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PURULENCY»

The term «purulency» is used very little and occupies the 186.548 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PURULENCY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about purulency

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PURULENCY»

Discover the use of purulency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to purulency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Lectures on Inflammation: Exhibiting a View of the General ...
The frequent co-existence of purulency with hectic was perhaps the only circumstance upon which this hypothesis was founded. It has been urged against this supposition, that pus is a mild bland fluid, and destitute of all poisonous and ...
John Thomson, 1831
2
A critical pronouncing dictionary
Provision, procurement uf victuals. PURVEYOR, pfir-va'ur, s. 166. One that provides victuals ; a procurer, a pimp. PURULENCE, puVu-hfnse, \ *. 177. Ge- PURULENCY, pu'ru-len-se, J neration of pus and matter. — See Mucuteut* PURULENT ...
John Walker, 1824
3
Annual and Analytical Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine
The surgeon must persevere for months and even years with such treatment, if he observes that the tendency of the purulency is to lessen, and the condition of the diseased mucous membrane of the drum-space improves. If the purulency ...
Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous, 1900
4
First Lines of the Practise of Physic...
... frequently appears: 'but l have never seen it in any case, when there was not evidently,0r when lhad not ground to suppose, there was a permanent purulency or ulceration in some external or internal part. It was for this reason that in LXXlV.
William Cullen, 1784
5
The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal ...
In the counterfeit ophthalmia, the swelling was chiefly in the conjunctiva, and was not attended with much purulency. The tumefaction of the palpebrae, and great purulent discharge, are particularly characteristic of the infectious ophthalmia.
‎1808
6
Elements of the practice of physic
John Gregory William Creech ((Edimburgo)), John Balfour ((Edimburgo)). a phthisis, if the lungs are quite found ? Whence proceed the hectic fever and colli^ quative sweats ? These often happen previous to any purulency. — In a vomica ...
John Gregory, William Creech ((Edimburgo)), John Balfour ((Edimburgo)), 1774
7
The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1836-1845).
The first appearance of the protruded iris (generally the sure precursor of the destruction of the eye) may be easily detected ; it is seen peeping up through the purulency, of a fleshy colour; if, however, the purulency have disappeared, it may  ...
‎1839
8
Commentaries on the principles and practice of physic: ...
I have given this and the following cafe a place here, though acrimony or purulency are only accidental concomitants of increased determination. See Book III. Ch. VI. Book IV. Ch. IV. 4°. Purulent collections. These have a place here only as ...
James Makittrick Adair, Thomas Becket ((Londres)), John Balfour ((Edimburgo)), 1772
9
A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye
Eyes improve; purulency nearly gone. Instillet; solut: opii. May lst.—Opens his eyes more freely; trifling purulency ; general health good. 8th.—-Eyes have been convalescent: to-day he complains of heat in the right, in which there is a return of  ...
John Vetch, 1820
10
The Town and country magazine; or Universal repository of ...
... after this manner ; for this perspirable matter retained, being wholly excrementitious, and unapt to be indued with spirits, degenerates into viscosity, and perhaps into purulency, and lying within tKe confine* of the veins, among the fibres of ...
‎1780

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