- 1膿、膿液
Pus is the thick yellowish — sometimes — liquid that a body makes when a part of it is infected. You see it in a boil, a dirty wound, or a bad spot on the skin. It is made of dead white blood cells, , and broken tissue. English speakers say the word freely at the doctor’s, though it sounds a bit ugly, so some people prefer “discharge” on polite forms. You can have a little pus or a lot; doctors may drain it. Though actually, older English had other words for this liquid (now almost dead), and pus, borrowed from Latin, took their place. It is a thing-word, not a polite-table word, but it is not slang either — it is the ordinary name of a real body product. One more messy truth: the colour is a clue, not a full diagnosis. Yellow pus often means infection, but only a doctor should decide what to do.
組成From Middle English pus (15th century), borrowed from Latin pus (“pus”). In this sense it widely replaced the older English words quitter and atter.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pusnoun/pʌs/
- 1
medicinepathologysciencesA whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
- Pus was seeping out of the wound.
pusverb/pʌs/
- 1
rareTo emit pus.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:pus.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- permanent undersecretary
- PU
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