Pus

Definition: Pus

Pus

Noun

1. The tenth month of the Hindu calendar.

2. A fluid product of inflammation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Pus" was first used: 1392. (references)

Etymology: Pus \Pus\, noun. [Latin expression, akin to Greek expression and to English foul: compare to the French expression pus. See Foul,]. (references)

PUS

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Pus

Uncleanness

Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.

Crosswords: Pus

Albanian (shadoof, well), Dutch (pus), French (pus, sanies), Italian (pus), Latin (pus), Papiamen (pus), Portuguese (matter, pus), Scottish (a cat), Spanish (dartre, matter, purulence, pus), Turkish (fog, haze, mist).

Where's my pus Hey kids (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Mother pus bucket (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

Pus. It's got to come from somewhere, right (Now and Again; writing credit: Michael Angeli)

No I don't want another glass of pus! (The Private Eyes; writing credit: Tim Conway; John Myhers)

On a pus les parents qu'on avait (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Fun Gus & Polly Pus (Gross, U. B. Slimeballs, #1.) (reference)

• Fun Gus and Polly Pus (reference)

• Le pus de la plaie : journal de maladie ; précédé de, Lettre � Maurice Toesca ; et suivi de, Entretien avec Claude-Henri Rocquet (reference)

• Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman Between Pus (reference)

• The Transformers Stamp Fun Featuring the Brave Autobots: 32 Stamps Pus Puzzles and Coloring Fun! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• When Pus Comes to Shove (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Gross pathology of amebic abscess of liver. Tube of "chocolate" pus from abscess. Credit: CDC.

A pus specimen, viewed using Pappenheim's stain. Last century, infections by S. pyogenes claimed many lives especially since the organism was the most important cause of puerperal fever and scarlet fever. Streptococci. Credit: CDC.

[Cytology: Illustration of pus cells]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

If an infection is present, bacteria and sometimes pus will be in the urine. (references)

An abscess is an infected area with pus that may cause swelling and destroy tissue. (references)

To find out whether you have a UTI, your doctor will test a sample of urine for pus and bacteria. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "Pus": discharge pus. Additional references.

Beginning with "Pus": pus-cell, pus-cells, pus-covered, pus-formerly, pus-hued, pus-like, pus-oozing, pus-stained, pus-stinking, pus-yellow.

Albanian

qelb (matter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قيح (purulence), ‏صديد (purulence). (various references)

Bulgarian 

гной (discharge, matter, purulence). (various references)

Chinese 

膿 . (various references)

Czech

hnis (discharge, matter). (various references)

Danish

materie (matter). (various references)

Dutch

pus (laudable pus), etter. (various references)

Esperanto

puso. (various references)

Faeroese

vágur. (various references)

Farsi 

فساد (Corruption, Decadence, Decay, Degeneration, Depravity, Immorality, Putrefaction, Spoil, Turpitude, Vice), چرک (Dingy, Dirt, Dirty, Frowzy, Guck, Impure, Lymph, Puss, Slag, Sordid, Squawk), ریم . (various references)

Finnish

mätä (decay, decayed, lousy, rot, rotten), märkä (wet). (various references)

French

pus. (various references)

German

Eiter (matter, purulence, purulency). (various references)

Greek 

πύο (purulence). (various references)

Hebrew 

מו�'ל�" (abscess, discharge, purulence), לח�" (fluid, humidity, humour, moisture, phlegm, sputum). (various references)

Hungarian

genny (crappy, matter, sanies). (various references)

Indonesian

nanah. (various references)

Italian

pus (laudable pus), materia purulenta, liquame (dirtiness, liquid manure, matter, sewage). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膿汁 , 膿 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うみ (beach, birth, bringing into the world, production, sea), のうじゅう. (various references)

Manx

ingyr (corruption, ichor, suppuration, whitlow). (various references)

Papiamen

pus. (various references)

Pig Latin

uspay.(various references)

Portuguese

pus (matter). (various references)

Romanian

puroi (matter). (various references)

Russian 

гной (matter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

gnoj. (various references)

Spanish

pus (dartre, matter, purulence). (various references)

Swedish

var (be, case, each, every, ichor, matter, was, were, where). (various references)

Thai

น้ำหนอง. (various references)

Turkish

irin (discharge, fester, ichor, issue, matter, purulence, purulent matter, pyo-, suppuration), iltihap (discharge, fester, gathering, ichor, inflammation, issue, matter, purulence, purulent matter, suppuration), cerahat (fester, ichor, matter, purulent matter, sanies, suppuration). (various references)

Turkmen 

iriс, зylpyk. (various references)

Ukrainian

гній (atter, dung, manure, matter, muck, ordure, purulence, soil). (various references)

Welsh

go+r, crawn (matter). (various references)

lugud. (various references)

pura, pure, purum, pus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "Pus": puses, push, pushball, pushballs, pushcart, pushcarts, pushchair, pushchairs, pushdown, pushdowns, pushed, pusher, pushers, pushes, pushful, pushfulness, pushfulnesses, pushier, pushiest, pushily, pushiness, pushinesses, pushing, pushover, pushovers, pushpin, pushpins, pushrod, pushrods, pushup, pushups, pushy, pusillanimities, pusillanimity, pusillanimous, pusillanimously, pusley, pusleys, puslike, puss, pusses, pussier, pussies, pussiest, pussley, pussleys, pusslies, pusslike, pussly, pussycat, pussycats. (additional references)

Words ending with "Pus": campus, carpus, corpus, coypus, eohippus, euripus, grampus, hippocampus, intercampus, lupus, metacarpus, multicampus, noncampus, octopus, opus, palpus, pappus, pithecanthropus, platypus, polypus, priapus, quippus, quipus, rhizopus, rumpus, wampus. (additional references)

Words containing "Pus": campused, campuses, campusing, corpuscle, corpuscles, corpuscular, corpuses, crepuscle, crepuscles, crepuscular, crepuscule, crepuscules, eohippuses, grampuses, groupuscule, groupuscules, lupuses, octopuses, opuscula, opuscule, opuscules, opusculum, opuses, outpush, outpushed, outpushes, outpushing, platypuses, polypuses, priapuses, rhizopuses, rumpuses, sourpuss, sourpusses, wampuses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sup, ups.

-1 letter: up, us.

+1 letter: cups, cusp, dups, opus, plus, pubs, puds, pugs, puls, puns, pups, purs, push, puss, puts, scup, soup, spud, spue, spun, spur, sump, supe, sups, tups, umps, upas, yups.

+2 letters: bumps, burps, coups, cusps, dumps, dupes, gulps, humps, jaups, jumps, jupes, loups, lumps, lupus, mumps, ouphs, pause, phuts, pilus, pious, plugs, plums, plush, poufs, pours, pouts, praus, pseud, pubes, pubis, puces, pucks, puffs, pujas, pukes, pules, pulis, pulls, pulps, pulse, pumas, pumps, punas, pungs, punks, punts, pupas, puris, purls, purrs, purse, pursy, puses, pushy, putts, quips, roups, rumps, scaup, sculp, scups, setup, sirup, situp, slump, slurp, soups, soupy, spout, sprue, sprug, spuds, spued, spues, spume, spumy, spunk, spurn, spurs, spurt, sputa, stoup, stump, stupa, stupe, sumps, sunup, super, supes, supra, syrup, tumps, turps, updos, upset, usurp, yaups.