Definitions for pus

pus pus

Spelling: [puhs]
IPA: /pʌs/

Pus is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in pus (psu).

Definitions for pus

noun

  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.

Origin of pus

1535-45; Latin; akin to Greek pýon pus. See pyo-

Examples for pus

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

Mucus and pus (matter such as comes from an abscess) may also be discharged.

pus must be let out with a knife which has been laid in boiling water.

And he repeats the Arabic proverb in broken Arabic, “A drop of pus will disable a camel.”

They declared that it was not necessary "that pus should be generated in wounds."

Claudopus is from two Greek words: claudos, lame; pus, foot.

In the event of pus forming the gland must be opened and drained.

pus is a mixture of germs, blood and the flesh that they have destroyed.

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

This case had not proceeded far enough for the formation of the cyst or pus.

Word Value for pus
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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