(a.) Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.
(a.) Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.
Example Sentences:
(1) 20 patients, 10 of them suffering from a putrid peritonitis, showed a good efficacy of Optocillin (Bay 1-1330), a combination of 6-((R)-2-[3-methylsulfonyl-2-oxo-imidazolidine-1-carboxamido]-2-phenyl-acetamido)-penicillanic acid sodium salt (mezlocillin, Baypen) and 5-methyl-3-phenyl-4-isoxazolylpenicillin (oxacillin, Stapenor), in 85%.
(2) Ten putrid-smelling decubitus ulcers were successfully treated with metronidazole gel.
(3) Gas echoes within pleural or abscess fluid were found to be a sensitive and specific indicator of anaerobic infection, as was a putrid odor to the breath or pleural fluid.
(4) Clinical clues that indicate anaerobic sepsis include a putrid odor of the exudate and evidence of abscess, necrosis, or associated gas formation.
(5) Clinical clues that indicate anaerobic sepsis include a putrid odor of the exudate and evidence of abscess, necrosis or associated gas formation.
(6) While it may be possible, or maybe even inevitable, that a team below .500 will win their division (Atlantic, we're looking at you) it would pretty much violate the laws of probability for the East to remain this putrid for the entire season.
(7) Typical anaerobic infections include gas gangrene, brain abscess, oral infections, putrid lung abscesses, intra-abdominal abscesses, and wound infections following gynecologic and bowel surgery, perirectal abscesses, postabortal infections, and septic thrombophlebitis.
(8) A patient with a putrid pulmonary abscess that did not resolve developed massive aspiration of the contents of the cavity following a fiberoptic bronchoscopic procedure.
(9) Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International and director of Environment Rights Action in Nigeria, said: "The widespread pollution of Ogoniland as documented does not come as a surprise because the manifestation is physical and people have been living in that putrid situation for decades now.
(10) But that is not possible for as long as Assad remains in power without any timetable for his departure, and for as long as his security forces murder, torture, gas and bomb his own people.” Nigel Dodds, the deputy DUP leader, indicated he was likely to back airstrikes and issued a vicious assault on the Labour leadership, saying: “It’s the petulant, putrid response of the irresponsible revolutionary bedsit they barely seem to have clambered out of.
(11) Clostridial infections, putrid infections with aerobic and anerobic growing germs, air forced into the tissue during the primary trauma and the formation of gas by contact of the wound with aluminium, H2O2 and gasoline may be causes for the formation of gas and oedema in the tissues.
(12) Green, putrid water laps against the walls of the rainbow-coloured village mosque.
(13) Escherichia coli was identified as the pathogenic organism in the spinal putrid fluid.
(14) The type strain of Eikenella corrodens (Eiken 1958) Jackson and Goodman 1972 and eleven epidemiologically independent clinical isolates recovered from periodontal locations, putrid wounds, abscesses, and bacteraemias were investigated for their genomic relationships by DNA-DNA hybridization with the renaturation method, genome molecular complexity, DNA base composition and some phenotypic features.
(15) Two adolescents with acute anaerobic (putrid) lung abscess were seen during an influenza epidemic.
(16) Putrid and charred specimens become quite manageable.
(17) Bacterioscopy allows a rapid differentiation to be made between putrid and clostridial infection.
(18) The putride arthritis should be managed by early synovectomia and movement trauma in order to limit infection and prevent ankylosis.
(19) This 51-year-old report detailed the principles of operative treatment of acute putrid abscess of the lung in the era prior to antibiotic availability.
(20) By therapeutic practical considerations a subdivision of chronic bronchitis with mucoid sputum, putrid sputum, obstruction and obstructive bronchiolitis was attempted.
Stench
Definition:
(v. t.) To stanch.
(v. i.) A smell; an odor.
(v. i.) An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.
(n.) To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.
Example Sentences:
(1) I still have the stench of their debasement in my nostrils.
(2) Inside the carriage the temperature was stifling, the stench of unwashed bodies and stale urine overwhelming.
(3) It was therefore attempted to combat the hospital infections by all means with desodorizing procedures, thus trying primarily to suppress the stench by frequent whitewashing of the rooms, spraying of vinegar, by burning powder and even using precious incense.
(4) "Those are dead people in front of our house and the smell is awful," called out a woman from the balcony, her face shrouded in cloth to protect her from the stench.
(5) In addition, data were collected relating to work activity and exposure to the stenching agent added to the herbicide, atmospheric levels of which were measured with personal monitoring, on a daily basis.
(6) That’s good – but not when it fails, and is emitting the stench of a medieval cesspit.
(7) Adiós, Rajoy: Spaniards can’t stomach the stench of corruption in ruling party Read more On Tuesday the floor belonged to Sánchez.
(8) They are kept in overcrowded cells; they are denied toothbrushes, toothpaste, and soap; they are subjected to the constant stench of excrement and refuse in their congested cells [and] they are surrounded by walls smeared with mucus and blood,” said one passage of the lawsuit, which went on to name several more hardships.
(9) The stench of corruption and conflict of interest is so heavy around him, it’s inevitable that Congress will be forced to reckon with it.
(10) It's also amazing how long senior management at RBS took to fix the bank's Libor controls once the rotten stench emerged.
(11) More recently, the stunning beauty of the bay – backdrop for some of Rio’s most spectacular sights – has been at odds with an often appalling stench of human waste and other forms of pollution .
(12) Without working plumbing, the stench in the property had become intolerable.
(13) He also posted a status update about washing "the stench of public transport off me" once he had gotten his Porsche back from the workshop.
(14) Below him pipes of natural gas pump flames into the stack, lighting a fire that will burn day and night for 17 days to bake the bricks at 1080 degrees Celsius, sending the stench of sulphur into the air in billows of steam.
(15) Emily Butler, the town clerk in Trout River, Newfoundland said Tuesday the 26-meter (28.4-yard) blue whale is beached next to a community boardwalk and is emitting a powerful stench that is spreading through the town of 600 people.
(16) The problem with an open sewer is you cannot escape the stench.
(17) But no matter how hard they try, the stench of death is impossible to get rid of.
(18) Even so, the authors have decided not to hold an official launch in any of the crap 50, in case linguistic subtleties are lost on, say, Wolverhampton, where smells "permeate the town like the stench of a trapped animal slowly decaying in a drainpipe".
(19) He recalled the stench and listening to the screams of others echoing through their sordid dungeon.
(20) Now some of the younger men and officers are teasing me about the way I smell and the stench in my cell.” In its recent report on older people in prison, the justice committee recommended that older and disabled prisoners should no longer be held in establishments that cannot meet their basic needs, and nor should they be released back into the community without adequate care and support.