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a fluid product of inflammation

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a fluid product of inflammation

the tenth month of the Hindu calendar

A pathologic process consisting in the formation of pus.

The white or yellowish-white matter found in sores, etc.

Substance having consistency of cream forming about inflammation.

That which has become putrid: white matter of a sore.

Creamy liquid formed on a sore; matter.

Secretion from inflamed tissues.

A secretion from inflamed textures, and especially from the areolar membrane. It is, almost always, of the same nature, whatever may be the part it proceeds from. Pus of a good quality, -laudable pus. Pus bonum seu laudabile seu nutritivum seu verum, (F.) Pus louable, - is of a yellowish-white colour, opake, inodorous, and of a creamy appearance. Heat, acids, and alcohol coagulate it. When analyzed by Schwilgue, it afforded albumen and water, a particular extractive substance, and a small quantity of soda, phosphate of lime, and other salts. Normal pus consists essentially of two distinct parts, pus corpuscles or pus globules, Cytoid corpuscles, (Henle) - and a colourless, aqueous fluid, liquor purls, in which the corpuscles are suspended. A variety of the pus corpuscles is described by M. Lebert under the name pyoid. Fully formed pus is aplastic.

A liquid inflammation-product made up of cells and a thin fluid called liquor puris

Syn.: matter. A liquid (usually thickish and yellowish white) occurring as the result of inflammation; consisting of emigrated leukocytes, liquid plasma, granular detritus from broken-down cellular structures, and sometimes fibrin flakes.

n. [Latin, Greek] The yellowish-white liquid produced by the process of suppuration.