Pus

Word PUS
Character 3
Hyphenation pus
Pronunciations /pʌs/

Definitions and meanings of "Pus"

What do we mean by pus?

A generally viscous, yellowish-white fluid formed in infected tissue, consisting of white blood cells, cellular debris, and necrotic tissue. noun

An inflammatory exudation composed of modified white blood-cells (pus-corpuscles), with more or less of the debris and of the proliferating cells of the solid tissues of the part, and a liquid plasma. noun

The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid. noun

A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection. noun

The tenth month of the Hindu calendar noun

A fluid product of inflammation noun

A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Pus

The word "pus" in example sentences

He began arm-to-arm inoculations by taking pus from the scab of a person and transferring it to another. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Munkey: Would you rather bob for apples in pus, or hit a pinata full of diarrhea? ❋ Lili (2007)

He often had to pry his eyes open in the morning with his fingers because they had been sealed shut with pus from the infections. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The old flag of yellow and gold we called pus and blood. ❋ Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 (1940)

What we call pus is made up of the bodies of live and dead phagocytes, disease taints and germs, blood serum, broken-down tissues and cells, in short, the debris of the battlefield. ❋ Henry Lindlahr (1893)

It would have been more realistic if the beaver started vomiting blood and its fur was clotted in pus. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Draining the pus was the only thing that helped, and I got a tetanus shot just because of the immobility. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Generally there is a discharge of greenish-yellow pus, which is very sticky. ❋ Charles James Korinek (N/A)

This form of suppuration is due to a particular form of bacterium called the pus-causing "chain coccus." ❋ Various (N/A)

There are three common forms of so-called pus cocci, and these are found almost indiscriminately with various types of inflammatory troubles. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The dirt most likely to contain these germs -- called pus germs, because they cause pus, or ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)

Proliferating and dying cells, and the fluid which exudes from an ulcerating surface and the débris of broken-down tissue is known as pus, and the process by which this is formed is known as suppuration. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

The tubercle bacilli destroy the lung tissue and change it into pus, which is coughed out. ❋ Max Birnbaum (1876)

Where an abscess is formed by the rupture of these new vessels, the violence of inflammation ceases, and a new gland separates a material called pus: at the same time a less degree of inflammation produces new vessels called vulgarly proud flesh; which, if no bandage confines its growth, nor any other circumstance promotes absorption in the wound, would rise to a great height above the usual size of the part. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

I'm not 100% sure of how it works but I know they phagocytose the bacteria, i.e. engulf them and break them down, so I think the pus is the dead neutrophils which have done their job (and are then cleaned up by macrophages or just generally lost by sloughing off the pus). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ta ma b a a n g p a n a n a w n i l a n a a n g p a ma h a l a a n a n g ma s i s i s i s a n a g i g i n g k a p a l a r a n n g mg a ka pus pa l a d? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The pus is the result of the action taken by the immune system of the body to fight against the bacterial infection.

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