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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Not a happy subject for the holidays, granted, so if you want to keep the euphoria going, you might stop right here.
Suppuration is the production of pus. Pus is a venerable word from way back; it’s cognate with the sturdy words putrid, and foul. The word is fronted by the prefix sub, which in this incarnation probably means “from below, away from”. Suppurating wounds are infected and are not healing well; the edges can be thought of as “separating”.
Veterinary surgery
Infection alters normal wound healing processes and delays resolution by prolonging the inflammatory response, reducing vascular supply, and separating wound edges with exudate.
(http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi- … 2/PDFSTART)
Transcript of enquiry
Maybe we can put an end to this separating wound of discussion.
(http://www.icac.nsw.gov.au/files/html/S … B00393.htm)
New Orleans outcry
he is rendering one of the most beautiful, historic, intoxicating places in this country into nothing more than an separating wound of misery and pain, chaos and death.
(http://www.nationalview.org/newsletter/ … 090105.htm)
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Not really relevant, but years ago I read (in the Reader’s Digest of all places, despite their generally excellent proofreading) that when on a certain occasion Chairman Mao’s physician “touched his gums, puss oozed out.†I’ve seen cats ooze out of other places, but not there.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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