(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.
Scar
Definition:
(n.) A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.
(n.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust.. under Axillary.
(v. t.) To mark with a scar or scars.
(v. i.) To form a scar.
(n.) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
(n.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors examined an eye obtained post-mortem from a patient with chronic granulomatous disease of childhood and clinically apparent chorioretinal scars.
(2) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
(3) In spite of the presence of scar tissue following rhytidectomy, this procedure has been quite successful because of the rich blood supply in that area.
(4) Following a dosage of 300,000 IU streptokinase the lysis was stopped because of severe bleeding from the urethrotomy scar.
(5) Differences in scar depression also supported the idea of more stretching in the Dexon group.
(6) These findings support the hypothesis that the presence of FSC tissue will have an effect on the persistence of glial scar tissue in a chronic lesion site as well as limit the extent to which a new scar is formed in response to a second injury to the spinal cord.
(7) Thirty patients required a second operation to an area previously addressed reflecting inadequacies in technique, the unpredictability of bone grafts, and soft-tissue scarring.
(8) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
(9) To test this hypothesis 30 Wistar rats were subjected to laparotomy and colonic resection and treated with 5-Fluorouracil or Mitomycin C. The bursting strength of the abdominal scars and the colonic anastomotic bursting pressure revealed some interference in the rats treated with 5-Fluorouracil (Student's t test P less than 0.05) but none in the case of Mitomycin C. This preliminary study deserves to be followed up.
(10) The patient suffers little inconvenience, has a very small scar and is in hospital only a short time.
(11) Skin affected by a burn cancer is scarred, ulcerated, and often appears as erythema ab igne clinically in adjacent skin.
(12) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(13) The ensuing scars were similar with respect to scar width and the amount of collagen in the scar.
(14) Several stages in its histogenesis may be discerned: I. focal necroses of hepatic cells associated with their invasion with lister Listeria; 2. appearance of cellular elements around the foci of necroses with subsequent formation of granulemas consisting mainly of leucocytes and lymphoid cells; 3. development of necrobiotic changes in the central areas of granulemas with concomitance of exudative processes; 4. organization of necrotic foci with subsequent scarring.
(15) This method keeps the fracture closed and leaves no scar.
(16) Regarding ureters read as true positives on indirect study, if that ureter has ever shown reflux at any time, or if it drained a scarred kidney specificity was improved to 97% without changing the sensitivity.
(17) Both acquired defects were covered by two different cross-finger flap techniques, despite extensive scarring of the adjacent finger.
(18) After the completion of rejection reaction, inflammation finally induced scarring or necrosis of the tracheal allograft, resulting in asphyxia or perforation.
(19) Autopsy findings showed no scar formation of his testes, and the primary lesion was finally diagnosed to be in the anterior mediastinum.
(20) Following this combination procedure the patients were relieved completely of obstructive jaundice and right upper quadrant pain, leaving only small trocar insertion scars made during the short course of hospitalization.