PUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pus mean? 

• PUS (noun)
  The noun PUS has 2 senses:

1. the tenth month of the Hindu calendar

2. a fluid product of inflammation

  Familiarity information: PUS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The tenth month of the Hindu calendar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Pansa; Pus

Hypernyms ("Pus" is a kind of...):

Hindu calendar month (any lunisolar month in the Hindu calendar)

Holonyms ("Pus" is a part of...):

Hindu calendar (the lunisolar calendar governing the religious life of Hindus; an extra month is inserted after every month in which there are two new moons (once every three years))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fluid product of inflammation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

festering; ichor; purulence; pus; sanies; suppuration

Hypernyms ("pus" is a kind of...):

bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance (the liquid parts of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pus"):

gleet (a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea)

 Context examples 

An accumulation of pus in the anterior chamber of the eye.

(Hypopyon, NCI Thesaurus)

Localized collection of pus in the tissues that enclose the root of a tooth and is associated with the presence of a sinus tract.

(Periapical Abscess with Sinus, NCI Thesaurus)

Localized collection of pus in the tissues that enclose the root of a tooth.

(Periapical Dental Abscess, NCI Thesaurus)

It may be filled with fluid, air, pus, or other material.

(Cyst, NCI Dictionary)

Presence of pus in a hollow organ or body cavity.

(Empyema, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The clinical course is marked by recurrent bacterial and fungal infection without pus formation.

(Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency Type 1, NCI Thesaurus)

An inflammatory process characterized by the accumulation of pus within a newly formed tissue cavity which is the result of a bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infection or the presence of a foreign body.

(Abscess, NCI Thesaurus)

An enclosed collection of pus in tissues, organs, or confined spaces in the body.

(Abscess, NCI Dictionary)

An abscess is a pocket of pus.

(Abscess, NIH)

The sores fill with pus, then break open after a few days and form a thick crust.

(Impetigo, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)