pus

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2024

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

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

After three applications and what seems like a bucket of pus, the wound does look better.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins