(n.) A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.
(n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet surgeons are faced daily with the question of whether to graft onto fat after sequential excision of the burn eschar, or whether to excise deeper and graft onto muscle or fascia.
(2) A mean of 27% of the applied silver (0.35 gm) became incorporated in the eschar.
(3) Four patients developed skin lesions with eschars at and around the site of intravenous catheter insertion.
(4) The child in an immunocompromised state who develops a red papule, then a black eschar with surrounding erythema, should have immediate biopsy that can easily demonstrate the characteristic hyphal forms.
(5) Quantitative microbial counts performed with the kidneys, livers, and eschars of burned mice challenged with both organisms indicated that the deaths were due to Candida infection.
(6) Adequate safety education to young employees, prompt transport to hospital, nursing in isolated area and early excision of eschar reduced the mortality and morbidity of burn injury.
(7) Although the initial appearance of the lesions was identical with non-scarring forms of herpes simplex, this patient's lesions progressed insidiously to eschar formation.
(8) Results show that the diffusion resistance for burned tissue is less than one tenth of that for normal skin, but changes substantially during the development of an eschar.
(9) In pressure wounds in which the center of the wound had ulcerated or had an eschar, elevated TxB2 concentrations were found in tissues in the inner edge of the wounds and in healthy appearing tissues immediately adjacent to the pressure wounds.
(10) All of the patients were women aged between 40 and 68, and all developed widespread livedo reticularis followed by painful subcutaneous nodules which progressed to eschar-like lesions of the skin.
(11) When applied to the wound bed, zinc chloride paste fixes the tissue and leads to the formation of an eschar that falls off within a few days, leaving a granulating ulcer suitable for grafting.
(12) as soon as infection was detected or the eschar had started separating.
(13) 250000 sq.cm of vitrified skin stored for one to two years were used in 135 operations for major full thickness burns after tangential excision or excision of eschar.
(14) Wound healing impairment is defined in this study as inflammation, separation, cellulitis, lymphangitis, drainage, necrosis, or abscess necessitating dressing, antibiotics, or débridement before wound healing with complete epithelialization without eschar.
(15) In order to avoid excessive bleeding during tangential excision of the granulating tissue, sub-eschar infiltration with Para-Ornithin-8-Vasopressin (POR 8), a synthetic neurohypophyseal-like hormone, has been performed since 1979 on 145 children.
(16) The adherent eschar produced by treatment with cerium-flamazine provided a satisfactory wound cover until tangential excision could be carried out.
(17) To test if cerium neutralized this erythroid inhibitor, we applied cerium or silver nitrate to the eschar of a mouse model of thermal injury.
(18) Eschar was observed in 72 hr in about half of the rabbits and persisted through termination on the 7th day.
(19) Lesions similar to those seen in humans were produced in rabbits by intradermal injection of 200 microliters of a venom extract (0.21 microgram protein per microliter), including edema and erythema, ischemia and cyanosis in the first 12 hr, extensive purpura by 24 hr, and crateriform ulcer formation by day four, with induration and eschar formation.
(20) The success of any procedure for early removal of the eschar depends on prompt and complete wound coverage with skin grafts.
Escharotic
Definition:
(a.) Serving or tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic.
(n.) A substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ventral defects resulted from elective skin flap coverage in 15 patients, prosthetic silo failure in five, and nonoperative management using escharotic agents in three.
(2) Pathologically, the fungal lesions in the nasal, oral and sinusoidal cavities were black, ulcerated, and escharotic due as a direct result of tissue destruction by the organism and an indirect result of thrombotic vascular infarction.
(3) Two neonates with giant omphaloceles were managed by leaving the sac intact, and silver sulfadiazine cream was used as an escharotic agent.