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

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

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2024

The pus looked like it contained tea leaves, which turned out to be spider eggs.

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

I discovered pools of oil and pus under my skin.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos