pus
puhs
- n the tenth month of the Hindu calendar
- n a fluid product of inflammation
- n a solid silvery grey radioactive transuranic element whose atoms can be split when bombarded with neutrons; found in minute quantities in uranium ores but is usually synthesized in nuclear reactors; 13 isotopes are known with the most important being plutonium 239
- The acute form is accompanied by a watery discharge or pus; the chronic form may be wet or may have no pus, no dripping, but a thickening of the membranes, which sometimes .
- DEFINITION: (plural) Any of a genus of spherical Gram-positive bacteria that generally occur in irregular clusters of short chains: the pathogenic species are the cause of pus .
- But ever since Edward Jenner, a country doctor in England, inoculated his son and a handful of other children against smallpox in 1796 by exposing them to cowpox pus, things have .