| CSOM | chronic suppurative otitis media |
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| OMSA | otitis media, suppurative, acute |
| OMSC | otitis media secretory (or suppurative) chronic |
| SOM | secretory otitis media; sensitivity of method; serous otitis media; somatotropin; state operations m... |
| suppurative | Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration. <medicine> Suppurative fever, pyaemia. Origin: Cf. F. Suppuratif. <medicine> A suppurative medicine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| suppurative appendicitis | Acute appendicitis with purulent exudate in the lumen and wall of the appendix. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suppurative arthritis | Acute inflammation of synovial membranes, with purulent effusion into a joint, due to bacterial infection; the usual route of infection is hemic to the synovial tissue, causing destruction of the articular cartilage, and may become chronic, with sinus formation, osteomyelitis, deformity, and disability. Synonym: purulent synovitis, pyarthrosis, pyogenic arthritis, suppurative synovitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suppurative choroiditis | Purulent inflammation of the choroid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suppurative encephalitis | Encephalitis of bacterial aetiology. Synonym: encephalitis pyogenica, purulent encephalitis, suppurative encephalitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suppurative gingivitis | Gingivitis in which a purulent exudate can be expressed from the gingival surface. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suppurative hepatitis | Hepatitis with abscess formation; often amoebic in origin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suppurative hyalitis | Purulent vitreous humor due to exudation from adjacent structures, as in panophthalmitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suppurative inflammation | An acute exudative inflammation in which the accumulation of polymorphonuclear leukocytes is sufficiently great that their enzymes cause liquefaction of the affected tissues, focally or diffusely; the purulent exudate is frequently termed pus, and consists of plasma and its constituents, end products of the enzymatic digestion of tissue, degenerated and necrotic cells and their debris, polymorphonuclear leukocytes and other white blood cells, the causal agent of the inflammation, etc. Synonym: suppurative inflammation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suppurative mastitis | Inflammation of the breast due to infection with pyogenic bacteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suppurative necrosis | Liquefactive necrosis with pus formation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suppurative nephritis | Focal glomerulonephritis with abscess formation in the kidney. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suppurative periodontitis | Periodontitis accompanied by purulent exudate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suppurative pleurisy | Pleurisy with empyema. Synonym: suppurative pleurisy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suppurative pneumonia | Any pneumonia associated with the formation of pus and destruction of pulmonary tissue; abscess formation may occur. Synonym: septic pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |