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pus

[ puhs ]

noun

  1. a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.


pus

/ ±èÊŒ²õ /

noun

  1. the yellow or greenish fluid product of inflammation, composed largely of dead leucocytes, exuded plasma, and liquefied tissue cells
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pus

/ ±èÅ­²õ /

  1. A thick, yellowish-white liquid that forms in infected body tissues, consisting of white blood cells, dead tissue, and cellular debris.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pus1

1535–45; < Latin; akin to Greek ±èý´Ç²Ô pus. See pyo-
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pus1

C16: from Latin ±èÅ«²õ; related to Greek puon pus
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Example Sentences

All Awwal Musa's fingers were clawed and her legs discharged pus.

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As Ms Buhari spoke, she paused to wipe the pus oozing from her wound.

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In Season 2, that was an episode titled "Milkmaids" which centered on people quite literally eating pus and made me also quite literally puke.

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Despite being dizzy and confused, she said she was put back to work soon after in the prison’s laundry room and received almost no treatment for months, even when her wound oozed green pus.

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It also delivered results in less than four hours for urine, pus, and sputum samples, and within one day for blood samples.

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