pus

Example Sentences

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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.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024

The medical staff cut his toe open with a scalpel and a milk-like pus came out.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 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

Federal officials urge workers to notify bosses if they have vomiting, jaundice, a sore throat with fever, diarrhea or lesions with pus.

From Washington Times • May 31, 2023

He'd brought a pear as well and had wrapped it in a plastic bag so that its pus wouldn't stain the clothing he had packed a day earlier but bought long before he was married.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris