(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.
Quinsy
Definition:
(n.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.
Example Sentences:
(1) His problem was first diagnosed as "quinsy" and later modified to "Cynanche trachealis".
(2) Prolonged follow-up shows that the rate of recurrence of a quinsy can double compared to the recurrence rate under 5 years.
(3) Few considered the age of the patient or a history of a quinsy a contraindication to its use.
(4) We recommend abscess tonsillectomy should be performed for quinsy where expertise and facilities are available.
(5) Only a quarter of the patients had a significant recent history of tonsillitis but four had had a previous quinsy and six had had a previous tonsillectomy in childhood.
(6) A prospective study was carried out to evaluate the sensitivity of ultrasonography in diagnosis of peritonsillar abscess (Quinsy).
(7) Abscess tonsillectomy reduces patients lost to follow-up, avoids the social inconvenience of a second admission, effectively relieves symptoms, treats a contralateral abscess and is the only method of treating children with a quinsy.
(8) We conclude that quinsy tonsillectomy is the best management for PTA in a young work force when the optimal treatment choice is between interval or acute tonsillectomy.
(9) Alkaline phosphatase activity was examined in the human tonsils in fetal life and after repeated attacks of acute tonsillitis and in quinsy.
(10) Quinsy cases following tonsillectomy are very rare indeed, as proved by the scarce publications related to the subject.
(11) Witnesses claim that he died when he choked on a fly while enjoying a goblet of wine, but historian believe he may have died from a complication of tonsillitis called quinsy.
(12) Quinsy tonsillectomy may be carried out for the best abscess exposure.
(13) Despite this it remains relatively low and an uncomplicated quinsy does not warrant tonsillectomy.
(14) In 37 patients with unilateral quinsy put was collected with a syringe technique and bacteriologically examined.
(15) Significant differences were noted between the quinsy and interval tonsillectomy groups concerning the average number of days hospitalized (3.0 versus 4.5) and their respective convalescent periods (10.3 versus 17.3).
(16) Although a common enough condition in the general population, quinsy is rare in children and even rarer in infants.
(17) A prospective study for the treatment of quinsy was undertaken between January 1989 and September 1991.
(18) Studies were included in comparison tables if they involved the trial of one or more antibiotics against a control and there was an outcome in terms of reduction in the incidence of acute rheumatic fever, acute glomerulonephritis, acute otitis media, acute sinusitis, quinsy or any symptoms related to the acute illness.
(19) The possibility of a subclinical contralateral peritonsillar abscess being present is an additional indication for proceeding with a quinsy tonsillectomy, especially in patients who remain febrile after apparent satisfactory drainage of the clinically evident abscess.
(20) 21 patients with non-rheumatic myocarditis, 25 convalescents following quinsy, and 58 donors.