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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pus/pʌs/

▶noun a thick yellowish or greenish opaque liquid produced in infected tissue, consisting of dead white blood cells and bacteria with tissue debris and serum.

– origin ME: from L.

'pus' also found in these Oxford entries:

abscess - boil - empyema - groundsel - matter - maturate - maturation - pneumonia - pox - purulent - puss - puss - pustule - pyaemia - pyoderma - pyogenic - pyorrhoea - pyuria - running - sinus - staphylococcus - suppurate - tarboosh

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puss [pus] will ooze out
the pus bursts out

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