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podre — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • pus noun A thick yellowish-white fluid made up of dead white blood cells and bacteria that forms at the site of an infection.
  • putrefaction noun The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
  • rot verb To decay or break down through the action of bacteria or fungi.

Senses

podre is used for these senses in English:

  • pus (medicine, pathology) A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
  • putrefaction The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
  • rot The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.

putrefaction — full definition

  1. noun The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
  2. noun Rotten material.
  3. noun The state of being rotten.

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