pus

• Twenty years earlier Alan headed West by Greyhound bus, hitchhiking when his money ran out, sacking out in YMCA dormitories that stank of piss, pus, and booze, listening to drunks and drifters wheeze, spit, and fart their way through nightmares, make snotty sounds, scream garbled names like Mary, Joe, Billy, Cherry, Bobby, Harry, Fatty, Betty in the dirty dark. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 02 - August 2003
• As a boil grows, it gets filled with a whitish substance called pus which is full of bacterium, protein and leucocytes or white blood cells. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• In blemishes such as pustules and cysts the pus is actually sterile they occur where there are many oil glands, mostly on the face, chest and back. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• If an abscess forms in spite of these precautions it may be treated surgically in several ways In one it should be done by a careful incision, which will allow the escape of the blood or the serum, or of the pus which is inclosed in the sac; in another it may be by means of a seton, in order that the discharge may be maintained and allowed to escape; for another we may adopt the more cautious manner of emptying the cavity by means of punctures with small trocars or aspirators. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• Loose in this pus was a hard mass, as large as a two-quart measure, looking like marble; when cut through its centre, it appeared like the brittle, hardened lining in case 1. —  Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure

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