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  • 111chronic obstructive pulmonary disease — COPD; = chronic obstructive airways disease a disease of adults, especially those over the age of 45 with a history of smoking or inhalation of airborne pollution, characterized by airflow obstruction that is not fully reversible. The disease has …

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  • 112matter — [n1] substance amount, being, body, constituents, corporeality, corporeity, element, entity, individual, material, materialness, object, phenomenon, physical world, protoplasm, quantity, stuff, substantiality, sum, thing; concepts 407,433,470 Ant …

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  • 113purulent —   a. pertaining to, containing or discharging pus.    ♦ puruloid, a. like pus.    ♦ purulence,   n …

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  • 114apostemidura — apoustemiduro f. purulence; suppuration; abcès …

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  • 115purulent — [pyoor′ə lənt, pyoor′yoolənt] adj. [Fr < L purulentus < pus (gen. puris), matter, PUS] of, like, containing, or discharging pus purulence n. purulency purulently adv …

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  • 116bodily fluid — noun the liquid parts of the body • Syn: ↑liquid body substance, ↑body fluid, ↑humor, ↑humour • Derivationally related forms: ↑humoral (for: ↑humor) …

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  • 117body fluid — noun the liquid parts of the body • Syn: ↑liquid body substance, ↑bodily fluid, ↑humor, ↑humour • Derivationally related forms: ↑humoral (for: ↑humor) …

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  • 118festering — noun 1. (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus • Syn: ↑suppuration, ↑maturation • Derivationally related forms: ↑mature (for: ↑maturation), ↑ …

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  • 119gleet — noun a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea • Hypernyms: ↑pus, ↑purulence, ↑suppuration, ↑ichor, ↑sanies, ↑festering …

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  • 120liquid body substance — noun the liquid parts of the body • Syn: ↑bodily fluid, ↑body fluid, ↑humor, ↑humour • Derivationally related forms: ↑humoral (for: ↑humor) …

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