Usage Note
Pus is a medical and everyday noun for the thick fluid produced by infection. The final s is pronounced, unlike most French final consonants, because the word comes from Latin. The related adjective is purulent/purulente ('purulent, full of pus').
Examples
"La plaie contenait du pus."
Natural Translation
The wound contained pus.

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