2007-02-17 04:48:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Skin Conditions
Definition of Pus
Pus: A thick whitish-yellow fluid which results from the accumulation of white blood cells (WBCs), liquified tissue and cellular debris. Pus is commonly a site of infection or foreign material in the body.
2007-02-17 04:52:09 · answer #1 · answered by bluegrass 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pus White Blood Cells
2017-01-17 09:28:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Puss is actually a combination of water and toxins being released from your body from a low level infection. It may contain some white blood cells but is NOT just white blood cells.
2007-02-17 04:52:43 · answer #3 · answered by david1957 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pus is a whitish-yellow or yellow substance produced during inflammatory responses of the body that can be found in regions of pyogenic bacterial infections. An accumulation of pus in an enclosed tissue space is known as an abscess. A visible collection of pus within or beneath the epidermis, on the other hand, is known as a pustule or pimple. Pus is produced from the dead and living white blood cells which travel into the intercellular spaces around the affected cells.
Something that creates pus is called suppurative, pyogenic, or purulent. If it creates mucus as well as pus, it is called mucopurulent.
Pus consists of a thin, protein-rich fluid, known as liquor puris, and dead neutrophils, which are part of the body's innate immune response. Neutrophils are produced in the bone marrow and released into the blood. When the need to fight infection arises, they move to the site of infection by a process known as chemotaxis, usually triggered by cytokine release from macrophages that sense invading organisms. At the site of infection they engulf and kill bacteria. After it has killed a bacterium, the neutrophil dies. These dead cells are then phagocytosed by macrophages, which break them down further. Pus, therefore, is the creamy material composed of these dead neutrophils.
Neutrophils are the most abundant type of leukocyte in human blood, comprising anywhere between 40% to 75% of leukocytes.
When seen in a wound or dry skin, pus indicates the area is infected and should be cleaned with antiseptic.
Despite normally being of a whitish-yellow hue, changes in the color of pus can be observed under certain circumstances. Blue pus is found in certain infections of Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a result of the pyocyanin bacterial pigment it produces; amoebic abscesses of the liver, meanwhile, produce brownish pus. Pus might have a reddish tint to it after mixing with blood. Pus also can have an odor.
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2007-02-17 04:54:43 · answer #4 · answered by $Sun King$ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yeah it is. white blood cells are supposed to protect you,and puss is made out of white blood cells. does that answer your question?:)
2007-02-17 04:52:29 · answer #5 · answered by Charlotte 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a mixture of spent cells, bacteria, and other body fluids meant to isolate an infection from teh rest of teh body.
2007-02-17 04:52:05 · answer #6 · answered by juicy_wishun 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me it seems a infection in skin in case of unhealed wound/cut or boils at its peak. Its white or off white in colour. Sometimes even infected blood which is due to again cut and unhealed wounds.
2007-02-17 04:58:25 · answer #7 · answered by san 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
^ lol ^
You're right, puss is white blood cells that can no longer fight bacteria.
2007-02-17 04:52:54 · answer #8 · answered by thegirlwitharidiculouslylongname 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is a nasty bacteria that forms when heat and moinst gets stocked in your body or pores yeewww!
2007-02-17 04:53:04 · answer #9 · answered by sinner so what ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a cat. Sometimes wearing boots.
2007-02-17 04:50:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋