pus

Example Sentences

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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 pus looked like it contained tea leaves, which turned out to be spider eggs.

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 pus flowed out, but not well enough.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow