pus

Example Sentences

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As Ms Buhari spoke, she paused to wipe the pus oozing from her wound.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2024

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

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

There’s a small amount of pus flowing down the giraffe’s long nasal passage.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen