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How to pronounce “pus”
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Pronunciation guide for pus
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of pus with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 5 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more? 17 minutes
who was so ravaged by infection that his scalp oozed pus
- Definition summary
- (medicine, pathology) A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
Example 1 of 5
How to pronounce pus
Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more? 17 minutes

who was so ravaged by infection that his scalp oozed pus
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “pus”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (medicine, pathology) A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
- [Verb]
- (rare) To emit pus.
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