(1) Prospective analysis of the postoperative course of 1461 patients following major visceral surgery showed that postoperative complications scurred in 17.3% (253) of cases; 81% of the complications were related to the surgical procedure (surgical complications), whereas in 18.2% (46) of the patients, they complications were not related to surgery (non-surgical complications).
Scurf
Definition:
(n.) Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.
(n.) Hence, the foul remains of anything adherent.
(n.) Anything like flakes or scales adhering to a surface.
(n.) Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot.
Example Sentences:
(1) I had cooked, sometimes, with difficulty, yet woke one day to find I had somehow assembled a bizarre array of crockery on my floor, like a gnomes' tea party but with much scurf; I daily grew too fatigued to lift things and spent increasing hours abed.
(2) The relative contribution from loose scurf or from stratum corneum squames was not determined.
(3) Because diagnostic scales and scurf, or small scales, are easily lost in the process of collecting and preparing herbarium specimens of the new species, the potential for confusion among related species is increased.
(4) On the removal of the scurf covering the supposed entrance of the erysipelas, a larva of Dermatobia hominis, the human bot fly, was extracted from the head skin, and the inflammation completely disappeared within a short period of time.
(5) Minor scurfing and hair loss occurred on some calves with all compounds, but hair coats were normal 28 days after treatment.
(6) So now, when some drab functionary presents himself as speaking for the party, he is no more than scurf on a sea of money handed out by any opinionated casino magnate.
(7) Animal scurf extracts are nearly always contaminated with mites.
(8) A survey of vertical distribution showed no mite penetration deeper than inner stratum corneum where 57% of mite sections were seen; 30% were within outer stratum corneum or scurf; 13% were on the outer surface and less than 1% were detached.
(9) Within flocks, itchmite infested sheep or sheep with scurf had higher prevalences of fleece derangement than sheep on which no mites or no scurf were found.
(10) Among flocks, there were positive relations between the prevalence of fleece derangement and prevalence of itchmite or scurf and between itchmite count and mean scurf score.
(11) Horse or dog scurf collected in the summer months will be contaminated by pollens.
(12) Itchmite infested sheep had a higher prevalence of scurf than those with no detectable mite infestation.