~ PYTHIA  myth> PRIESTESS OF APOLLO AT DELPHI
                SHE STOOD OVER A TRIPOD COVERED WITH
  THE SKIN OF THE PYTHON KILLED BY APOLLO
  HER PROPHESIES WERE SERPENTS
  ASSOCIATED WITH HER WORSHIP
  hx> some experts recount stories that
      APOLLO HAD SLAIN THE SHE SERPENT AND
  ITS PUTRID REMAINS WERE CALLED
  gr PUTHO or        see> PUTRID
     PYTHO
  giving rise to PYTHIAN APOLLO and
  his PRIESTES were called PYTHIA
  in earlier times VIRGINS
  an episode or rape induced a shift to
  appoint as PYTHIA older women
                  biol> PYTHEAS  PYTHINA
~ PYTHIAN GAMES   hx> HELD IN HONOR OF APOLLO NEAR DELPHI
                      THE GAMES OCCURRED EVERY 5TH YEAR
          THE COMPETITION WAS IN MUSIC AND IN ATHLETICS
          THE PRIZE WAS A WREATH OF LAUREL
~ PYTHON  myth> A MONSTROUS SERPENT THAT TERRORIZED
                LETONA THE MOTHER OF APOLLO AND
  LATER KILLED IN DELPHI BY APOLLO
  biol> PYTHO  PYTHIDAE  PYTHONASTER  PYTHONIDAE etc
        denote SERPENT SHAPES

~ PYEMIA     med> PUS IN BLOOD or PYOHEMIA
~ PYO~       prefix from gr PYON = PUS
             note see> PYTHON  see> PUTRID
~ PYOCHEZIA  med> PUS IN STOOL  gr CHEZEIN = DEFECATE
~ PYODERMA   med> PURULENT SKIN DISEASE
~ PYODERMIA  same as above
~ PYOFECIA   same as PHOCHEZIA
~ PYORRHEA   med> PERIODONTAL PUS   gr RHOIA = FLOW
                  note DIARRHEA

~ PUTA       sp for  see> PROSTITUTE
             sp PODRIDO = PUTRID
~ PUTREFACT  or
~ PUTRID     id+ | ROT DECAY DETERIORATED |
             myth> see> PYTHIA relates to
  THE PYTHON KILLED BY APOLLO
  and its ROTTING FLESH
  gr   PUTHO   = ROTTING FLESH OF THE PYTHON
       PUON      or
       PYON      PUS
  lat  PUS       or pl
       PURA      or gen
       PURIS     leading to
  eng  PURULENT  from
       PUTIDUS   STINK
       PUTER     ROTTEN or PUTRID
  gr   PUTHO     note myth> re
       PYTHON    whose rotting flesh
                 inspired ideas related to
       PYTHIA    priestess and symbolic wife of APOLLO
  med> PYAEMIA   PUS IN BLOOD
       PYORRHEA  PUS IN GUMS
  consider PUS   SUPPURATE