pus

About 1.66 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. symbol ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Pashto.
2. noun A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.

   Pus was seeping out of the wound.

3. verb To emit pus.

Similar words

suppuration purulence sanies ichor festering inoculable muco matter purulent exudate exudate

Often followed by

is and in from cells or may was of

Word family

puses