What's the difference between cellulitis and pus?

Cellulitis


Definition:

  • (n.) An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
  • (2) Authors demonstrate the possibility of the tuberculous etiology of the cellulitis.
  • (3) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
  • (4) An unusual and extremely rare displacement of teeth due to trauma, resulting in cervical space cellulitis with probable secondary complications is presented.
  • (5) Bacterial orbital cellulitis is a feared complication of paranasal sinus infection.
  • (6) A review of 104 patients with acute orbital cellulitis during the past decade showed that the frequency of hospital admissions for this disease has increased recently.
  • (7) Cellulitis was rare (1 per 1,900 cases) and endophthalmitis was even rarer (1 per 30,000 cases).
  • (8) The pathogenesis of both syndromes may be explicable by the fact that soluble parasitic allergens bind to cellules of the respiratory tract and induce hypersensitivity reactions under the influence of reagins.
  • (9) Similar cellulitis, mainly perivascular, was found in kidneys and anterior mediastinum.
  • (10) The clinical symptoms and signs were somewhat atypical and included acute suppurative cellulitis in the floor of the mouth plus localized periodontitis involving 36.
  • (11) Local swelling or haematoma at the injection site occurred in 15 patients (5.9%), cellulitis in 2 (0.8%) and minor contrast reactions in 6 (2.3%).
  • (12) Three patients developed cellulitis and skin necrosis following fluorescein dye extravasation.
  • (13) At follow-up or suture removal, patients were evaluated for signs of wound complications (cellulitis, ascending lymphangitis, purulent discharge, or dehiscence).
  • (14) A child is reported who developed a mycotic aneurysm of the cavernous portion of the internal carotid artery following staphylococcal cellulitis and septicemia.
  • (15) Three other patients developed cellulitis of the trachea and root of the neck, centered around the tract through the party wall; one patient suffered a fracture of the cervical spine.
  • (16) The authors believe that the increasing population of patients with depression of cell-mediated immune response will lead to an increase in the frequency with which cryptococcal cellulitis is seen and emphasize that proper evaluation of a patient with presumptive cellulitis includes consideration of fungal, as well as bacterial, etiology.
  • (17) On the basis of clinical and histopathological criteria they have been classified as follows: 22 cases with gas gangrene (clostridial myonecrosis), 16 cases with anaerobic cellulitis, 20 wound infections, 8 cases of septicemia, 5 of bacteriemia, 1 of tetanus, and 5 other clostridial infections.
  • (18) Other indications included trauma (n = 5), chronic nonhealing wounds (n = 4), urine-induced cellulitis (n = 1), idiopathic dermal necrosis (n = 1), and chronic lymphoplasmocytic dermatitis (n = 1).
  • (19) One third of the children with cellulitis showed one or several complications.
  • (20) Other sources of infection were skin, postoperative, intravenous catheter site and cellulitis.

Pus


Definition:

  • (a.) The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that ultrasonography, 67Ga scanning, and CT each have significant limits in diagnosing intra-abdominal pus.
  • (2) It is important that the nurse recognize when pus is a major factor in an unhealed wound and initiate local care to assist in cleaning the wound bed.
  • (3) Confirmation of diagnosis was established by exteriorization of pus with US, CT or during surgery.
  • (4) We isolated a strain of P. penneri from the pus of a patient with suppurative otitis media and an epidural abscess on June 10 and 15, 1989.
  • (5) Furthermore, useful antibacterial concentrations of both drugs were found in pus, sputum, and middle-ear fluid.
  • (6) The surgeons were able to aspirate the accumulated pus quite easily in 8 of the 9 patients with AIDS who underwent only intercostal drainage.
  • (7) Craniotomy disclosed an abscess containing yellow pus from which Streptococcus viridans was cultured.
  • (8) In the case of the suppurative reaction, pus drained along a root surface, destroying the periodontal ligament and interradicular bone until it emerged at the gingival sulcus.
  • (9) The final diagnosis was based on direct microscopy (2) or culture (1) of drained pus in the empyema cases and on histologic examination of resected tissue in the others.
  • (10) The mastoid cavity was found to be filled with pus and cholesteatoma debris.
  • (11) No macroscopic infection with pus formation occurred, while Micrococcus varians was cultured from each inoculated implant.
  • (12) When distribution of these organisms were classified depending on clinical materials from which they were isolated, outpatient sources from which S. aureus were isolated at high frequencies were otorrhea and pus, while inpatient sources with high incidents of S. aureus isolation were sputum and pus.
  • (13) No viability loss of B. fragilis was noted when pus was stored at 25 degrees C. Only slight loss of viaability of B. fragilis was observed at 15 degrees C. Escherichia coli coexisting in pus with B. fragilis increased several 100fold in 24 h when stored at 25 degrees C, but no significant growth occurred when they were kept at 15 degrees C. Approximately 20 to 40% of E. coli lost their viability when such pus was stored at 4 degrees C. We suggest that 15 degrees C may be an alternative temperature for storage of anaerobic specimens in laboratories where some delay in routine processing is unavoidable.
  • (14) The drug was not degraded by pus containing beta-lactamase and had equally good or better activity than nafcillin or vancomycin against Staphylococcus aureus or Staphylococcus epidermidis in vitro and in vivo.
  • (15) Pathogenic gram-negative bacilli and gram-positive pus-producing cocci are responsible for the studied pathology.
  • (16) aureus (in throat swabs and pus specimens), and enterobacteria were found.
  • (17) Bilateral tonsils were swollen, and covered with pus.
  • (18) Microflora isolated from cattle with acute postnatal pus-catarrhal endometritis has been studied.
  • (19) By combined gas chromatography and mass spectrometry the fatty acids of pus in patients with psoriasis pustulosa palmo-plantaris were analysed.
  • (20) Culture of aspirated pus revealed colonies of gram-positive cocci which were subsequently identified as E. faecalis.

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