pus

Example Sentences

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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

The medical staff cut his toe open with a scalpel and a milk-like pus came out.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2023

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

The river of pus continued to ooze out the drainage tubes.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow