pus
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.
Origin of pus
1Other words from pus
- puslike, adjective
Words that may be confused with pus
- pus , puss
Words Nearby pus
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How to use pus in a sentence
Infection can last two to four weeks, and monkeypox can spread when viral material from pus makes contact with open wounds, or through short-lived respiratory droplets.
There’s a second case of monkeypox in the US this year—but don’t freak out | Hannah Seo | November 18, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWith inoculation, pus from an infected person was gathered, either in a small vial or by passing a string through one of the sores, and then passed through an open cut in a healthy subject.
Mandatory immunization for the military: As American as George Washington | Gillian Brockell | August 26, 2021 | Washington PostHowever, because every person at that time had an understanding of the power of disease, unprotected troops engaged in desperate attempts at home self-innoculations using pus from the oozing sores of infected friends and neighbors.
As U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Top the Civil War’s Toll, We're Repeating Disease History | Rachel Lance | August 14, 2021 | TimeIn some cases people inhaled the dried scabs of smallpox lesions or rubbed or injected pus from smallpox lesions into a healthy person’s scratched skin.
Vaccine hesitancy is nothing new. Here’s the damage it’s done over centuries | Tara Haelle | May 11, 2021 | Science NewsVariolation was often done using pus from an infected person’s pox that doctors inserted into a cut.
Wearing a mask could protect you from COVID-19 in more ways than you think | Kat Eschner | September 10, 2020 | Popular-Science
Swelling, pus, the whole shebang; an angry reaction that lasted weeks.
Various scratches and cuts line her arms and face; a pus-filled abscess burns on her right arm.
At that point, Tyson had become a scavenger spewing bile and pus.
It is thinner than that of chronic bronchitis, and upon standing separates into three layers of pus, mucus, and frothy serum.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddWhen at all abundant, pus forms a white sediment resembling amorphous phosphates macroscopically.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Toddpus-casts may appear if the process extends up into the kidney tubules (see Fig. 62).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddIn suppurations of the urinary tract pus-producing organisms may be found.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddOn the other hand, except in children, where the percentage is normally low, pus is uncommon with less than 80 per cent.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd
British Dictionary definitions for pus
/ (pʌs) /
the yellow or greenish fluid product of inflammation, composed largely of dead leucocytes, exuded plasma, and liquefied tissue cells
Origin of pus
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for pus
[ pŭs ]
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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