Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To emit pus.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
From Middle English pus (15th c.), a borrowing from Latin pus (“pus”). Widely displaced quitter and atter in this sense.
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