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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PUS, n. [L.] The white or yellowish matter generated in ulcers and wounds in the process of healing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the tenth month of the Hindu calendar [syn: Pus, Pansa]
2: a fluid product of inflammation [syn: pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin pur-, pus — more at foul Date: 15th century thick opaque usually yellowish-white fluid matter formed by suppuration and composed of exudate containing white blood cells, tissue debris, and microorganisms

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a thick yellowish or greenish liquid produced from infected tissue. Etymology: L pus puris

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pus Pus, n. [L., akin to Gr. ?, ?, and to E. foul: cf. F. pus. See Foul, a.] (Med.) The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Pus is a thick yellowish liquid that forms in wounds when they are infected.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Purulence, matter, purulent matter.

Moby Thesaurus

carrion, chyle, colostrum, corruption, dandruff, decay, discharge, excrement, festering, filth, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, gleet, humor, ichor, lachryma, lactation, leukorrhea, lymph, matter, mattering, mess, milk, muck, mucor, mucus, obscenity, ordure, peccant humor, phlegm, purulence, putrid matter, rankling, rheum, rot, running, saliva, sanies, scurf, scuz, serous fluid, serum, slime, smut, snot, sordes, suppuration, sweat, tear, teardrop, the whites, urine