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

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

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

It’s like you’re covered in this blanket of fear, and this blanket is made out of broken glass and dog poop and oozy pus and bloody zombie zits.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio