(a.) Having the character or appearance of both mucus and pus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence of anaerobic infection was sought in 83 patients with pulmonary disease with anaerobic culture and gas liquid chromatography (GLC) of mucopurulent sputum, or pleural fluid where appropriate.
(2) The exudate, apparent as early as 48 hours after inoculation, drained from the cervix as a tenacious, mucopurulent discharge for several days, then rapidly disappeared.
(3) The remaining 20 patients (age 15 days to 57 years) had the following diagnosis: atypical follicles (eight), conjunctivitis with or without mucopurulent discharge (ten) innactive pannus only (one), and severe anemia (one).
(4) Positive direct-specimen fluorescein-conjugated monoclonal antibody test for C trachomatis results were associated with a past history of chlamydial infection, multiple sexual partners, sexual contact with men with urethritis, nonuse of condoms, metrorrhagia, exocervicitis, mucopurulent endocervical discharge, abnormal cervical cytologic features, and isolation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from the endocervix.
(5) The AA., emphasizing the importance of ascertain the bronchial source of microorganisms recoverable from sputum, recommend for this purpose the use of properly collected sputum specimens and the application of washing treatment for mucopurulent materials.
(6) Among women with a positive cervical culture for C. trachomatis, isolation of U. urealyticum was significantly associated with mucopurulent cervicitis, while among the subgroup of women with a negative cervical culture for C. trachomatis and positive serum antibody to C. trachomatis, oral contraceptive use was strongly associated with mucopurulent cervicitis.
(7) After adjustment for cervical culture results for C. trachomatis, mucopurulent cervicitis was positively associated with oral contraceptive use (p = 0.02) and isolation of U. urealyticum (p = 0.02) and negatively associated with isolation of yeast (p = 0.03).
(8) Observable mucoid or mucopurulent exudate was present in the trachea in 60 out of 118 (50 per cent) examinations and the amount seen was increased following exercise.
(9) No difference in prevalence of either mucopurulent conjunctivitis or herpetic dendritic keratitis was demonstrated between patients with and without trachoma.
(10) These results confirm that in both clinical settings C. trachomatis is the major cause of mucopurulent cervicitis.
(11) Other markers observed in infected women were mucopurulent cervicitis, typical and non-typical confluent ulcerations and minor disruptions of the epithelium.
(12) Three independent indicators were found: age of 25 years or less (odds ratio [OR] 3.2, 95% confidence limits [CL] 1.8 and 5.9), cervical erythema, contact bleeding or mucopurulent exudate (OR 2.5, 95% CL 1.4 and 4.5) and residency in the CLSC area (OR 2.3, 95% CL 1.1 and 5.1).
(13) A conclusion is that an increase in a degree of hypersecretion, a mucopurulent and purulent type of the bronchial contents can serve as an endoscopic sign to differentiate between lingering and chronic bronchitis.
(14) Furthermore, in the U.K., with the prohibition of the use of coal and the reduction of air pollution and with the decline of infectious disease in child age, recurrent or mucopurulent bronchitis underwent an extreme reduction.
(15) Chronic mucopurulent and latent catarrhal endometritis occurred most frequently.
(16) The patient, a 31-year-old female, had complained of a right nasal obstruction and mucopurulent rhinorrhea for two years.
(17) Clinical signs included pyrexia, serous to mucopurulent nasal discharge, dyspnea and depression followed by death in six to seven days.
(18) However, other treatment regimens that are effective against C trachomatis may not be effective for treating nongonococcal urethritis or mucopurulent cervicitis not caused by C trachomatis.
(19) Upon examination, the raccoon was dehydrated, had a mucopurulent oculonasal discharge and diarrhea, and was euthanized.
(20) The most common clinical manifestations of chlamydial infection are urethritis in men and mucopurulent cervicitis in women.
Purulent
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(2) Medium molecules have been detected by two methods, gel filtration and screening technique, in patients with diffuse purulent peritonitis and with chronic renal insufficiency.
(3) The unit was used to treat 110 patients with chronic purulent middle otitis.
(4) The percentage of positive cases was highest in the serous MEE group (81.2%) and decreased in the purulent MEE group (57%), the mucoid MEE group (30%), and the hyperviscous MEE group (13.6%), in that order.
(5) Purulent bronchitis appears to be a distinct, treatable entity in patients with HIV infection and may accompany bacterial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and P carinii pneumonia.
(6) An infectious etiology should be suspected in cases of necrotizing scleritis associated with a purulent discharge, and appropriate smears and cultures should be obtained.
(7) Two complications were observed: one case each of pneumothorax and purulent peritonitis.
(8) The term phlegmonous enterocolitis or gastritis defines an acute inflammatory process with purulent or nonpurulent character, that selectively damages the gastric, small and large intestines submucosal layer.
(9) On the basis of the analysis of 69 outbreaks of hospital infections registered in the USSR in 1986-1989, as well as additional observations made by the authors, a number of factors which determined the present state of the problems concerning this kind of morbidity in the USSR were established: an insufficient level (in cases of enteric infections) or a low level (in cases of purulent septic infections) of etiological diagnosis; poor efficiency of the epidemiological investigation of outbreaks; defects in the work on the prophylactic detection of potential sources of infection among medical staff, parturient women or mothers taking care of their infants.
(10) The inside of the abscess contained a purulent exudate with polynuclear cells and necrotic material.
(11) Under study was the kinetics of changes in the kinin content, the activity of kininase and blood proteolytic activity in acute purulent peritonitis in 63 patients.
(12) The authors report on a case of purulent cholangitis and hepatic abscess developing 5 years after choledochoduodenostomy, diagnosed by means of ERCP.
(13) In 91 patients with generalized purulent peritonitis, peritoneal dialysis (in 44) and laparotomy with programmed lavage of the abdominal cavity (in 47) were performed.
(14) Acute purulent inflammations in the tissues of the brain, kidneys and myocardium developing at early periods after the infection were replaced by granulomatous reaction and fibroplastic processes.
(15) In the absence of other contraindications such as a grossly evident purulent infection, an abdominal aortic aneurysm infected by C. fetus may represent a subset of infected aneurysms that can be treated successfully with an anatomically placed prosthetic graft and antibiotics.
(16) It was established that the vacuum treatment of purulent wounds was effective but after surgical treatment.
(17) This group was isolated only from purulent vaginal discharge and aborted foeti.
(18) Cefprozil (CFPZ, BMY-28100) granules were administered to 20 children with bacterial infections: acute tonsillitis 8, acute bronchitis 10, purulent lymphadenitis 1, urinary tract infection 1.
(19) Partial necrectomy was found possible in the majority of cases with the surgical treatment of the purulent focus; therefore to prevent dissemination of the inflammatory process and liquidate it as soon as possible surgery had to be performed against the background of the maximal permissible antibiotic concentration in the adjacent tissues.
(20) Staphylococcus aureus was identified in cultures of the purulent material which was surgically drained.