Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An albuminous mucin-like material found in pus: probably not a unity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physiol. Chem.) An albuminoid constituent of pus, related to mucin, possibly a mixture of substances rather than a single body.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biochemistry, dated An albuminoid constituent of pus, related to mucin, possibly a mixture of substances rather than a single body.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek, pus.

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Examples

  • Wal, fewd dan y 'de-ooty bawmz a mather should, eed now bettern to spawl a pore gel's flahrzn than ran awy athaht pyin.

    Act I 1916

  • Wal, fewd dan y 'de-ooty bawmz a mather should, eed now bettern to spawl a pore gel's flahrzn than ran awy atbaht pyin.

    Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw 1903

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