pus
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Definition of pus
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable, usually)A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
“Pus was seeping out of the wound.”
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noun
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(uncountable, usually)A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
“Pus was seeping out of the wound.”
- (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of permanent undersecretary.
- (form-of, plural)plural of PU
verb
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(rare)To emit pus.
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:pus.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English pus (15th c.), a borrowing from Latin pus (“pus”). Widely displaced quitter and atter in this sense.
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