Pus vs Rheum - What's the difference?
pus | rheum |
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) Watery or thin discharge of serum or mucus, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease.
* 1916 , (James Joyce), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , Macmillan Press Ltd, 102
Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a cold, catarrh; rheumatism.
*, II.8:
(poetic) Tears.
As an initialism pus
is permanent under secretary (uk).As a proper noun rheum is
.pus
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(wikipedia pus)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* pussyAnagrams
* ----rheum
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(wikipedia rheum)Noun
- He wore about his shoulders a heavy cloak; his pale face was drawn and his voice broken with rheum .
- hehad all his faculties free and easie, onely a rheume excepted that fell into his stomacke.