Pus
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pus \Pus\, n. [L., akin to Gr. ?, ?, and to E. foul: cf. F. pus.
See {Foul}, a.] (Med.)
The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the
process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white
nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "pus":
carrion, chyle, colostrum, corruption, dandruff, decay, discharge,
excrement, festering, filth, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, gleet,
humor, ichor, lachryma, lactation, leukorrhea, lymph, matter,
mattering, mess, milk, muck, mucor, mucus, obscenity, ordure,
peccant humor, phlegm, purulence, putrid matter, rankling, rheum,
rot, running, saliva, sanies, scurf, scuz, serous fluid, serum,
slime, smut, snot, sordes, suppuration, sweat, tear, teardrop,
the whites, urine
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