Putrid

a.
  1. Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.
  2. Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.
    3. Putrid fever (Med.),
    typhus fever; -- so called from the decomposing and offensive state of the discharges and diseased textures of the body.
    Putrid sore throat (Med.),
    a gangrenous inflammation of the fauces and pharynx.