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pus

/pʌs/ noun C1
  1. A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection. (uncountable) · Pus was seeping out of the wound.

Plural pura

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