pus
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Neutrophils are short-lived immune cells that respond aggressively to threats and are a major component of pus.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 27, 2025
All Awwal Musa's fingers were clawed and her legs discharged pus.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025
Necrotizing fasciitis can progress quickly, producing ulcers, blisters, skin discoloration and pus.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2023
It involved deliberately infecting someone with the disease by pricking someone else’s smallpox pustule, removing some pus, and placing that pus inside an incision on the recipient’s arm or thigh.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2023
Yossarian was alone in a ponderous, primeval lull in which everything green looked black and everything else was imbued with the color of pus.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
