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

Common symptoms of mpox include a skin rash or lesions filled with pus, which can last from two to four weeks.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025

Necrotizing fasciitis can progress quickly, producing ulcers, blisters, skin discoloration and pus.

From Salon • Sep. 25, 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

Fossils, for example, and whether their existence disproved the Book of Genesis; Brother Mendel’s experiments on the sexual reproduction of the sweet pea; the fallacy of laudable pus.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly