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pus

/puhs/US // pʌs //UK // (pʌs) //

脓包,脓液,脓疱

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.

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Examples

  • With inoculation, pus from an infected person was gathered, either in a small vial or by passing a string through one of the sores, and then passed through an open cut in a healthy subject.

  • However, because every person at that time had an understanding of the power of disease, unprotected troops engaged in desperate attempts at home self-innoculations using pus from the oozing sores of infected friends and neighbors.

  • In some cases people inhaled the dried scabs of smallpox lesions or rubbed or injected pus from smallpox lesions into a healthy person’s scratched skin.

  • Variolation was often done using pus from an infected person’s pox that doctors inserted into a cut.

  • Swelling, pus, the whole shebang; an angry reaction that lasted weeks.

  • Various scratches and cuts line her arms and face; a pus-filled abscess burns on her right arm.

  • At that point, Tyson had become a scavenger spewing bile and pus.

  • It is thinner than that of chronic bronchitis, and upon standing separates into three layers of pus, mucus, and frothy serum.

  • When at all abundant, pus forms a white sediment resembling amorphous phosphates macroscopically.

  • Pus-casts may appear if the process extends up into the kidney tubules (see Fig. 62).

  • In suppurations of the urinary tract pus-producing organisms may be found.

  • On the other hand, except in children, where the percentage is normally low, pus is uncommon with less than 80 per cent.