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pus - use in sentences
Preposition: from
- ear: Doctors treating chronic otitis media ( or glue ear ) often puncture the eardrum on purpose to drain pus from the middle ear.
Converse of object
- ooze: Her skin is open, pink and raw, oozing pus.
- drain: This involves having a tube placed in your abdomen to drain any pus from the abscess.
- discharge: These tend to rupture either to the outside or into the back of the throat and discharge thick yellow pus.
- contain: The abscess is actually a cavity under the skin, filled with many little ' walls ' that contain the pus.
- produce: In fact, you'll be doing the mental equivalent of sticking a Band-Aid over a boil that is producing pus.
- have: Do call your doctor if you have pus coming from your rash.
Adjective modifier
- yellow: Occasionally blisters become infected, and are filled with yellow pus.
- white: Due to the way it is now pointing, you'll get a little jet of white pus that shoots up against your fingernail.
- large: These could also develop into large pus filled sacs found primarily under the armpits and in the groin.
- thick: These tend to rupture either to the outside or into the back of the throat and discharge thick yellow pus.
- e.g.: Antibiotic treatment is recommended if there is evidence of infection ( e.g. pus ).
Modifies a noun
- cell: This means that milk containing 400 million pus cells per liter can be sold legally for human consumption.
- formation: The dead and dying cells contribute to pus formation.
- atients: LU pus P atients U nderstanding & S upport make no endorsements of any products or services.
- P: LU pus P atients U nderstanding & S upport make no endorsements of any products or services.
- sample: None of the 43 pus samples analyzed contained P. anaerobius DNA.
- aspirate: None of the 60 pus aspirates analyzed was positive for Peptostreptococcus magnus DNA.
Preposition: in
- foot: How can ' pus in the foot ' be treated?
- cavity: Abscess: A localized collection of pus in a cavity formed by the decay of diseased tissues.
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