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pus

noun as in liquid matter

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All Awwal Musa's fingers were clawed and her legs discharged pus.

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As Ms Buhari spoke, she paused to wipe the pus oozing from her wound.

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In Season 2, that was an episode titled "Milkmaids" which centered on people quite literally eating pus and made me also quite literally puke.

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Despite being dizzy and confused, she said she was put back to work soon after in the prison’s laundry room and received almost no treatment for months, even when her wound oozed green pus.

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It also delivered results in less than four hours for urine, pus, and sputum samples, and within one day for blood samples.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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