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Definition of Eschar
1. Noun. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
Definition of Eschar
1. 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.
2. 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.
Definition of Eschar
1. Noun. A dry, dark scab or scar, especially as a result of burning. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eschar
1. a hard, dry scab [n -S]
Medical Definition of Eschar
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Eschar
Literary usage of Eschar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1836)
"1. four lines thick, applied during four days, is capable of producing an eschar
of from one and a half totwo inches in depth. The same paste, three lines ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1830)
"If from any accident the eschar be entirely separated In-fore the healing is ...
If the eschar does not separate favourably, the formation of a scab beneath ..."
3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the Admiralty by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1848)
"So to Mr. Montagu, where his man, Monsieur eschar, makes a great complaint against
the English, that they did help the Spaniards against the French the ..."
4. London Medical Review (1808)
"He conceives that the inflammation of the part surrounding the eschar, ...
apprehend an effusion into the abdominal cavity on the separation of the eschar. ..."
5. The Pathology and treatment of venereal diseases by Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1879)
"... will take place on the fall of the eschar; we must, therefore be content in
most (tases with dressings of iodoform, a solution of carbolic acid, ..."
6. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1916)
"Passing from the eschar toward the periphery of the uterus, several zones were
noted: i. A narrow hemorrhage zone, with numerous inflammatory, fragmenting, ..."
7. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S.,from His Ms. Cypher by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, Mynors Bright (1884)
"eschar, makes a great complaint against the English, that they did help the
Spaniards against the French the other day; and that their Embassador do demand ..."
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