pus

Plural: pura, puses

Noun

• A thick, yellowish fluid produced by infection.
• the tenth month of the Hindu calendar
• a fluid product of inflammation
• a solid silvery grey radioactive transuranic element whose atoms can be split when bombarded with neutrons; found in minute quantities in uranium ores but is usually synthesized in nuclear reactors; 13 isotopes are known with the most important being plutonium 239
• A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.

Verb

• To emit pus.

Examples

• He shuddered, but played PUS for 8 points, valuing points over aesthetics.
• Pus was seeping out of the wound.

Synonyms

atomic number 94, festering, ichor, Pansa, plutonium, Pu, purulence, sanies, suppuration

Related Words

puriform, purulent, pustulent, suppurant, suppurate, suppurative, suppure