About The Word Festering

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Festering

Festering Meaning & Definition
Festering Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Festering?

[n] a fluid product of inflammation
[n] (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
[adj] having undergone infection; "festering sores"; "an infected wound"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Festering: ichor | infected | maturation | purulence | purulent | pus | pussy | putrid | sanies | septic | suppuration | suppuration

Related Terms | Find terms related to Festering: abscess | adulteration | algesia | algetic | angry | aposteme | bad | bed sore | befouling | blain | bleb | blister | boil | bubo | bulla | bunion | burning | canker | canker sore | cankered | carbuncle | carious | chafed | chancre | chancroid | chilblain | cold sore | contamination | corrupt | corruption | decayed | decomposed | defilement | envenoming | eschar | felon | fester | fever blister | fiery | fistula | foul | fouling | furuncle | furunculus | galled | gangrened | gangrenous | gathering | gleet | gone bad | gumboil | hemorrhoids | ichor | infection | inflamed | inflammation | irritated | irritation | kibe | lesion | leukorrhea | matter | mattering | misuse | mortified | necrosed | necrotic | papula | papule | paronychia | parulis | peccant | peccant humor | perversion | petechia | piles | pimple | pock | poisoning | pollution | polyp | prostitution | purulence | purulent | pus | pussy | pustule | putrefied | putrescent | putrid | rankling | raw | red | rising | rotten | rotting | running | sanies | scab | sensitive | sensitiveness | smarting | soft chancre | sore | sore spot | soreness | sphacelated | spoiled | stigma | sty | suppurating | suppuration | suppurative | swelling | tender | tenderness | tingling | tubercle | ulcer | ulcerated | ulceration | vitiation | wale | welt | wheal | whelk | whitlow | wound

See Also | activity | bodily fluid | bodily function | bodily process | body fluid | body process | gleet | humor | humour | liquid body substance

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