noun.
A generally viscous, yellowish-white fluid formed in infected tissue, consisting of white blood cells, cellular debris, and necrotic tissue.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
An inflammatory exudation composed of modified white blood-cells (pus-corpuscles), with more or less of the debris and of the proliferating cells of the solid tissues of the part, and a liquid plasma.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.
noun.
A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
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noun.
the tenth month of the Hindu calendar
noun.
a fluid product of inflammation
Word Usage
"He began arm-to-arm inoculations by taking pus from the scab of a person and transferring it to another."