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Suppuration vs Oozing - What's the difference?

suppuration | oozing |

As nouns the difference between suppuration and oozing

is that suppuration is (medicine) decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself while oozing is something that oozes; a seepage.

As a verb oozing is

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suppuration

English

(wikipedia suppuration)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine) Decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself.

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    oozing

    English

    Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that oozes; a seepage.
  • * 1855 , Henry Stephens, John Stuart Skinner, The book of the farm (page 320)
    • A 12-acre field of good, deep land on the farm of Frenchlaw, in Berwickshire, was rendered swampy by springs and oozings of water from the surrounding rising ground being retained upon the clay subsoil.