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pus

[puhs] / pʌs /


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Pus from the sores of an infected person are filled with contagious virus.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2022

Pus there are many variations on the male-female scale.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2017

As their offspring developed, a strange mutation occurred among the Kos, the Yangs and the Pus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pus is compounded of dead bacteria, dead leucocytes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pus and mucus are both soluble in the vitriolic acid, though in very different proportions, pus being much the less soluble.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus




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