pus
pronunciation
How to pronounce pus in British English:
UK [pʌs]
How to pronounce pus in American English:
US [pʌs]
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- Noun:
- a fluid product of inflammation
Word Origin
- pus
- pus: [16] English borrowed pus from Latin pūs, which was descended from the prehistoric Indo- European base *pū- (source also of English foul and Latin puter ‘rotten’, from which English gets putrid [16]). Its stem form pūr- has given English purulent [16] and suppurate [16]. The Greek relative of Latin pūs was púon ‘pus’, from which English gets pyorrhoea [18].=> foul, purulent, putrid, pyorrhoea, suppurate
- pus (n.)
- late 14c., from Latin pus "pus, matter from a sore;" figuratively "bitterness, malice" (related to puter "rotten" and putere "to stink"), from PIE *pu- (2) "to rot, decay" (cognates: Sanskrit puyati "rots, stinks," putih "stinking, foul, rotten;" Greek puon "discharge from a sore," pythein "to cause to rot;" Lithuanian puviu "to rot;" Gothic fuls, Old English ful "foul"), perhaps originally echoic of a natural exclamation of disgust.
Example
- 1. If there is blood or pus in the stool , I recommend you consult with a physician .
- 2. Acute otitis media is the presence of fluid , typically pus , in the middle ear with symptoms of pain , redness of the eardrum , and possible fever .
- 3. Unable to determine a diagnosis , he made a small incision below the bottom joint of her pinkie finger , where it connected to the back of her hand , to relieve the pressure , but only a few drops of pus drained out .