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pus

[puhs] / pʌs /


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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

On July 21, the day after the doctors’ positive bulletin, they discovered cotton and wool fibers mixed with the pus coming from the wound.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow




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