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pus Path.|pʌs|
Also 8 puss.
[a. L. pūs, stem pūr-, viscous matter of a sore: cf. purulent.]
a. A yellowish-white, opaque, somewhat viscid matter, produced by suppuration; it consists of a colourless fluid in which white corpuscles are suspended.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 F ij b, Hyppocrates..teacheth vs that pus or suppuracyon is made wt some putrefaction. 1651N. Biggs New Disp. 243 The Pus is materially produced of bloud. 1725Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Ulcer, A puss or corruption which retards the consolidating of the parts. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 123 The termination by suppuration is that process in animal bodies, by which the matter of sores or pus is formed. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 240 Pus is opaque, less viscid than mucus,..and in water sinks to the bottom.
fig.1831A. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) II. 105 A William infuses spirit of Reform, as a George..would have infused pus of Boroughmongery.
b. attrib. and Comb., as pus-cell, -corpuscle, pus-production, pus-serum; pus-containing, pus-forming, pus-like, pus-producing, pus-yellow adjs.
1845Budd Dis. Liver ii. 58 It would seem, that cancer-cells, like pus-globules, usually, if not always, become arrested in the liver, and do not pass through to become the germs of cancerous tumors in other organs. Ibid. 89. 1873 Rolfe Phys. Chem. 169 The pus-corpuscles are spherical irregular bodies about 1/2500 to 1/3500 of an inch in diameter. 1873T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2) 247 The extent of pus⁓formation will depend upon the severity of the inflammatory process. 1876Clin. Soc. Trans. IX. 177 Discharge less in quantity and more pus-like. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 432 Disintegrated pus-cells. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 279 The pus cavity extended within two centimetres of the apex of the frontal gyrus. 1922Joyce Ulysses 511 Virag..claps..on the wall a pusyellow flybill. |