pus
脓包,脓液,脓疱
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- : 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.
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With inoculation, pus from an infected person was gathered, either in a small vial or by passing a string through one of the sores, and then passed through an open cut in a healthy subject.
However, because every person at that time had an understanding of the power of disease, unprotected troops engaged in desperate attempts at home self-innoculations using pus from the oozing sores of infected friends and neighbors.
In some cases people inhaled the dried scabs of smallpox lesions or rubbed or injected pus from smallpox lesions into a healthy person’s scratched skin.
Variolation was often done using pus from an infected person’s pox that doctors inserted into a cut.
Swelling, pus, the whole shebang; an angry reaction that lasted weeks.
Various scratches and cuts line her arms and face; a pus-filled abscess burns on her right arm.
At that point, Tyson had become a scavenger spewing bile and pus.
It is thinner than that of chronic bronchitis, and upon standing separates into three layers of pus, mucus, and frothy serum.
When at all abundant, pus forms a white sediment resembling amorphous phosphates macroscopically.
Pus-casts may appear if the process extends up into the kidney tubules (see Fig. 62).
In suppurations of the urinary tract pus-producing organisms may be found.