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rfp for rfp so far 1. mIEKAL aND: They want to prove their new book really works 2. Allen Revich:  Haiku Number One & Epistemology of Cognition 3. Suse Allison:  Blues Sup ! ! !         My entry for ANTHOLOGY05060   Blues Sup   string ward pax nine silver votes wax beetle sling drive rat foddle bling ride     7 entries found for pus. (ps) n. A generally viscous, yellowish-white fluid formed in infected tissue, consisting of white blood cells, cellular debris, and necrotic tissue. [Latin ps. See p- in Indo-European Roots.] Indo-European Roots   ENTRY: p- DEFINITION: To rot, decay. Probably contracted from *pu- (becoming *puw- before vowels). Derivatives include foul, fuzzy, potpourri, and pus. 1. Suffixed form *p-lo-. a. foul, from Old English fl, unclean, rotten; b. fulmar, from Old Norse fll, foul; c. filth, from Old English flth, foulness, from Germanic abstract noun *flith; d. file3, foil1; defile1, from Old English flan, to sully, from Germanic denominative *fljan, to soil, dirty. a–d all from Germanic *flaz, rotten, filthy. 2. Extended form *pug-. fog2, from Middle English fog, fogge, aftermath grass, from a Scandinavian source probably akin to Icelandic fki, rotten sea grass, and Norwegian fogg, rank grass, from Germanic *fuk-. 3. Extended variant form *pous-. fuzzy, from Low German fussig, spongy, from Germanic *fausa-. 4. Suffixed form *pu-tri-. putrescent, putrid; olla podrida, potpourri, putrefy, from Latin puter (stem putri-), rotten. 5. Suffixed form *puw-os-. a. purulent, pus; suppurate, from Latin ps, pus; b. pyo-, from Greek puon, puos, pus. 6. empyema, from Greek compound empuein, to suppurate (en-, in; see en). (Pokorny 2. p- 848.) (ps) n. Main Entry: pus Pronunciation: 'p&s Function: noun : thick opaque usually yellowish white fluid matter formed by suppuration and composed of exudate containing leukocytes, tissue debris, and microorganisms pus n 1: the tenth month of the Hindu calendar [syn: Pus, Pansa] 2: a fluid product of inflammation [syn: purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering]   pus Pus is formed by the collection of large numbers of white cells called polymorphonuclear cells in a localised area of the body in response to the presence of bacterial infection. These cells break down and release chemicals that kill the bacteria as well as cause enlargement of the blood vessels (inflammation) and attract more white cells to the "fight."