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Pus

//pʌs// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection. uncountable, usually

    "Pus was seeping out of the wound."

  2. 2
    Initialism of permanent undersecretary. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. 3
    plural of PU form-of, plural
  4. 4
    a fluid product of inflammation wordnet
  5. 5
    the tenth month of the Hindu calendar wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To emit pus. rare

    "For quotations using this term, see Citations:pus."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

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