pus: [16] English borrowed pus from Latin pūs, which was descended from the prehistoric Indo- European base *pū- (source also of English foul and Latin puter ‘rotten’, from which English gets putrid [16]). Its stem form pūr- has given English purulent [16] and suppurate [16]. The Greek relative of Latin pūs was púon ‘pus’, from which English gets pyorrhoea [18]. => foul, purulent, putrid, pyorrhoea, suppurate
pus (n.)
late 14c., from Latin pus "pus, matter from a sore;" figuratively "bitterness, malice" (related to puter "rotten" and putere "to stink"), from PIE *pu- (2) "to rot, decay" (cognates: Sanskrit puyati "rots, stinks," putih "stinking, foul, rotten;" Greek puon "discharge from a sore," pythein "to cause to rot;" Lithuanian puviu "to rot;" Gothic fuls, Old English ful "foul"), perhaps originally echoic of a natural exclamation of disgust.
双语例句
1. The wound had not healed properly and was oozing pus.
伤口未真正痊瘉,还在流脓.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. The wound is still discharging pus.
这伤口仍在流浓.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3. The wound discharges pus.
伤口流脓.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
4. Disfiguring subcutaneous lesions bulge onto the surface and at intervals discharge pus.
皮下损害的形象是向表面凸起,并间断地分泌出脓液.
来自辞典例句
5. The bandage, stiff with pus and blood , was stuck fast to the torn muscles.
