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What is the adjective for pus?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb pus which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

pustulent
  1. Filled or oozing with pus
  2. Alternative spelling of pustulant, "producing pustules"
pustulous
  1. Bearing pustules.
  2. Resembling a pustule.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “But otherwise the irritation lasts for two, three or four days, the pustulous centre reappearing as often as it is broken.”
      “Bridalplasty is par for a very, very bizarre cultural course that started somewhere back on MTV's first drunken Real World and will end somewhere humid and pustulous, where no light escapes.”
      “To play Siamese twin to a pustulous convict were a trifle beside this.”
pustulocrustaceous
  1. (medicine) Characterized by the formation of pustules and crusts.
pustuliform
  1. Having the shape of a pustule
pustuled
  1. Marked with pustules.
puslike
  1. Resembling pus.
  2. Examples:
    1. “After sectioning the liver, he observed in the middle of the lesion a large cavum, which was filled with a yellow, puslike fluid.”
      “Depending on the type of bacteria, the wound exudate may become more puslike, and the peri-ulcer skin may be tender, red and painful.”
      “If the discharge is sticky and puslike, a deeper difficulty or more advanced irritation is indicated.”
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