(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.
Sanies
Definition:
(n.) A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The group has sworn allegiance to al-Qaida and, Sani says, some of its members have fought in Somalia and Sudan, but a formal link "cannot be independently confirmed".
(2) The residents of Sani Isla expressed relief that a confrontation with Petroamazonas did not take place on Tuesday as anticipated , but said the firm is still trying to secure exploration rights in their area of pristine rainforest.
(3) The military was flying in medical and intelligence teams to evaluate the former captives, many of whom were severely traumatised, said army spokesman Col Sani Usman.
(4) The north-east remained a centre of Islamic learning for children from all over Nigeria and west Africa, Sani said.
(5) The head of the local Sani Abacha hospital, doctor Garba Fika, said six bodies and 32 injured had arrived there, with one person dying after being admitted.
(6) Shehu Sani, a Boko Haram expert who has negotiated with the group before on behalf of the government, told AFP: “I have never heard of such a man, and if Boko Haram wanted to declare a ceasefire, it would come from the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau.” Ralph Bello-Fadile, an assistant to Nigeria’s national security adviser (NSA), told a conference on Monday that it had been inundated with fraudsters claiming to represent Shekau.
(7) To give just one example, Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s late military dictator (1993-98), is suspected to have looted up to $5bn (£3.5bn), of which $2.2bn is apparently still being withheld by European banks two decades later.
(8) The following year, after about 300,000 people – around half the Ogoni population – took part in peaceful marches and demonstrations across the region, the military government of General Sani Abacha sent in the troops and Ogoniland was occupied.
(9) In 2000, when Olusegun Obasanjo came to power in Nigeria's first democratic election, after the cruel dictator General Sani Abacha, he asked Okonjo-Iweala to write a brief for economic reform.
(10) An army spokesman, Col Sani Kukasheka Usman, called the attack a “temporary setback” committed by “remnants of Boko Haram”.
(11) On the take Head of state Mohammed Suharto Place, time Indonesia , 1967-98 Amount $15bn-$35bn Head of state Ferdinand Marcos Place, time Philippines , 1972-86 Amount $5bn-$10bn Head of state Mobutu Sese Seko Place, time Zaire, 1965-97 Amount $5bn Head of state Sani Abacha Place, time Nigeria, 1993-98 Amount $2bn-$5bn Head of state Slobodan Milosevic Place, time Serbia, 1972-86 Amount $1bn Head of state Jean-Claude Duvalier Place, time Haiti, 1971-86 Amount $300m-$800m Head of state Alberto Fujimori Place, time Peru, 1990-2000 Amount $600m Head of state Pavlo Lazarenko Place, time Ukraine 1996-97 Amount $114m-$200m Head of state Arnoldo Alemán Place, time Nicaragua, 1997-2002 Amount $100m Head of state Joseph Estrada Place, time Philippines, 1998-2001 Amount $78m-$80m
(12) "What's happening in Sudan is raising a lot of fears, particularly in Nigeria, which is a colonial creation," said Sani.
(13) An army spokesman, Col Sani Usman, said there had been “loss of lives as a result of the Shia group members blocking roads and not allowing other passersby to go about their lawful businesses and activities”.
(14) The elected leaders of Sani Isla have pledged to resist offers from Petroamazonas for the duration of their term.
(15) "We hope people will write protest letters to Petroamazonas, come and visit our lodge, promote Sani, donate money to our school and projects, volunteer as teachers or provide funds to students to travel overseas so they can learn what we need to survive in the future," said the community secretary, Klider Gualinga.
(16) It will be an uphill struggle, but Sani says writing off vast swaths of the electorate is not an option and asks: "How can you call people apathetic when they are not being told about how to vote and why it matters?"
(17) In a document prepared by Mohammed's lawyers, Mr Jones is described as "General Sani Abacha's manager."
(18) • Fifty-six-year-old delegate Liang Wengen, billionaire chairman of the construction equipment maker Sany Group, divulged one little-known benefit of joining the Communist party as a young man.
(19) The Nigerian government has formally asked Britain to freeze the bank accounts of the late military dictator General Sani Abacha who is alleged to have stolen $4.3bn during his five years in office from 1993.
(20) Dan Ballan Mahaman Sani, a Tuareg activist in the northern Niger town of Azawad, said: "Banditry, pillage, rape – all those things are worse post-Gadaffi.