What's the difference between purulent and pus?

Purulent


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
  • (2) Medium molecules have been detected by two methods, gel filtration and screening technique, in patients with diffuse purulent peritonitis and with chronic renal insufficiency.
  • (3) The unit was used to treat 110 patients with chronic purulent middle otitis.
  • (4) The percentage of positive cases was highest in the serous MEE group (81.2%) and decreased in the purulent MEE group (57%), the mucoid MEE group (30%), and the hyperviscous MEE group (13.6%), in that order.
  • (5) Purulent bronchitis appears to be a distinct, treatable entity in patients with HIV infection and may accompany bacterial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and P carinii pneumonia.
  • (6) An infectious etiology should be suspected in cases of necrotizing scleritis associated with a purulent discharge, and appropriate smears and cultures should be obtained.
  • (7) Two complications were observed: one case each of pneumothorax and purulent peritonitis.
  • (8) The term phlegmonous enterocolitis or gastritis defines an acute inflammatory process with purulent or nonpurulent character, that selectively damages the gastric, small and large intestines submucosal layer.
  • (9) On the basis of the analysis of 69 outbreaks of hospital infections registered in the USSR in 1986-1989, as well as additional observations made by the authors, a number of factors which determined the present state of the problems concerning this kind of morbidity in the USSR were established: an insufficient level (in cases of enteric infections) or a low level (in cases of purulent septic infections) of etiological diagnosis; poor efficiency of the epidemiological investigation of outbreaks; defects in the work on the prophylactic detection of potential sources of infection among medical staff, parturient women or mothers taking care of their infants.
  • (10) The inside of the abscess contained a purulent exudate with polynuclear cells and necrotic material.
  • (11) Under study was the kinetics of changes in the kinin content, the activity of kininase and blood proteolytic activity in acute purulent peritonitis in 63 patients.
  • (12) The authors report on a case of purulent cholangitis and hepatic abscess developing 5 years after choledochoduodenostomy, diagnosed by means of ERCP.
  • (13) In 91 patients with generalized purulent peritonitis, peritoneal dialysis (in 44) and laparotomy with programmed lavage of the abdominal cavity (in 47) were performed.
  • (14) Acute purulent inflammations in the tissues of the brain, kidneys and myocardium developing at early periods after the infection were replaced by granulomatous reaction and fibroplastic processes.
  • (15) In the absence of other contraindications such as a grossly evident purulent infection, an abdominal aortic aneurysm infected by C. fetus may represent a subset of infected aneurysms that can be treated successfully with an anatomically placed prosthetic graft and antibiotics.
  • (16) It was established that the vacuum treatment of purulent wounds was effective but after surgical treatment.
  • (17) This group was isolated only from purulent vaginal discharge and aborted foeti.
  • (18) Cefprozil (CFPZ, BMY-28100) granules were administered to 20 children with bacterial infections: acute tonsillitis 8, acute bronchitis 10, purulent lymphadenitis 1, urinary tract infection 1.
  • (19) Partial necrectomy was found possible in the majority of cases with the surgical treatment of the purulent focus; therefore to prevent dissemination of the inflammatory process and liquidate it as soon as possible surgery had to be performed against the background of the maximal permissible antibiotic concentration in the adjacent tissues.
  • (20) Staphylococcus aureus was identified in cultures of the purulent material which was surgically drained.

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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