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pus

Pronunciation: /pʌs/

The English word “pus” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  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.

verb

  1. To emit pus.

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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