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/pʌs/ · noun
(medicine, pathology) 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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Use pus when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pus means (medicine, pathology) A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection..
Common synonyms include ichor, purulence, suppuration, sanies.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Pus was seeping out of the wound.
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