(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.
Scab
Definition:
(n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
(n.) The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
(n.) The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
(n.) A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
(n.) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
(n.) A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
(n.) A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike.
(v. i.) To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this patient's farm, the disease was present for the first time and affected only 2-month old lambs in the form of numerous papulo-pustules located on the lips and later covered by hard and thick scabs.
(2) The effect of an experimental polyetherurethane (PEU) wound covering with a high vapor permeability was compared with an occlusive wound covering (OpSite covering) and air exposure with respect to the rate of reepithelialization, eventual epidermal thickness, and scab thickness in 122 partial-thickness wounds in guinea pigs.
(3) We cannot rule out, however, that the recombinant human growth hormone affected the quality of the scab in full-thickness wounds and thereby only appeared to alter the wound-healing process.
(4) One protein (SCAB 3), released on demineralization of bone with 0.5 M EDTA, appears to represent the alpha 1 pN-propeptide that is normally released during proteolytic processing of type I procollagen.
(5) Treatment-related changes in the skin indicative of irritation (scaling, scabbing, hyperkeratosis, hyperplasia) were found in all 2-EHA-treated groups.
(6) Scabs which had been placed in a disinfecting apparatus (Vacudes 4000) filled with mattrasses consistently proved to be free of infectious vaccinia viruses in each of the chosen programs.
(7) The concepts of "artificial digestion" and "artificial scab" are introduced.
(8) As sheep scab is a notifiable disease in South Africa, it was not possible to include an untreated control group.
(9) The end of new lesion formation, scabbing, and the healing of lesions were all superior in patients treated with 10(5) U to those treated with 10(7) U interferon.
(10) The time to last vesicle formation, time to total scabbing, and time to total healing were measured until complete resolution of the exanthem.
(11) Scabs are suspended in buffer solution and an enriched core suspension is obtained after treatment with detergent, quelants and centrifugation.
(12) Histopathologically, necrosis, scabbing, cell infiltration and thickening of the epidermis were noted at the site of application in the 4.0% BCA group.
(13) Surveys of vertical frozen skin sections from lesions of sheep inoculated with Psoroptes ovis revealed new aspects of scab histopathology, particularly lipid layers adherent to epidermis forming beneath dermal vesicles.
(14) It is necessary to distinguish by differential diagnostics: swine pox, parakeratosis of swine, lesions of impetigo contagiosa suum, pustular dermatitis and scab of swine, from rarely occurring skin diseases of swine hypotrichosis cystica suis and demodicosis of swine.
(15) Consequently, their medial edges did not fuse but rather underwent embryonic would healing with re-epithelialisation (which often formed needle track invaginations), but no signs of inflammation or scar or scab tissue formation.
(16) It could be confirmed that the usual terminal disinfection with formaldehyde vapor was unable to completely disinfect the scabs.
(17) By day 7 collagenase concentrations approached the low concentrations of normal skin when epithelialization was complete and the scab rejected.
(18) alopecia, necrosis of the ear and scab formation, were completely inhibited by 1,25-D3 therapy.
(19) I don't know what else she'd already had done by 2007, but I can see incisions in the creases where her ears and cheeks meet that look so fresh, they still have tiny lines of scab.
(20) It became really like a scab he could pick when the economy cratered in the mid-1980s and a lot of people fell out of work,” Powell continued.