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From the ulcer an ichorous fluid is discharged, and shreds of tissue slough off and are mixed with the changed and vitiated saliva.
Body scrubs help slough away dry, dead skin to reveal the baby-soft texture that makes your mate want to reach out and touch.
Coffee grounds can be used to slough away dead skin cells and stimulate circulation.
Exfoliating regularly also helps slough off potential milia-causing dead skin cells.
This body polish will help boost the skin's circulation and will slough off dead skin cells, leaving a healthy glow.
There, seepage could erode and slough away prized fossil-bearing formations.
Venous ulcers are typically shallow, irregularly shaped, and contain fibrous slough.
Then there were endless chunks of timber washed from the forest floor into the slough when the river flooded once a decade.
If the wound bed is partially obscured by slough or eschar, the ability to stage before debridement depends on the type of tissue visualized.
The wound bed contains a significant amount of slough, with signs and symptoms of infection, including increased redness and exudate, and pain.
The most common complication of the surgery is skin-flap slough, leading to a recurrence of the problem.
Transparent film dressings maintain a moist environment, promoting granulation tissue formation and autolytic debridement of slough and eschar.
Yesterday at low tide, silt shut the slough like trap, and mud stranded boats on docks perched high above water.
A variation of the usual procedure may be to undermine the skin flap less, which will help decrease the chance of slough or skin deterioration.
Descriptors such as granulation tissue, slough, or eschar are generally used to define tissue type.
He knows that the return of Ilsa can only send Rick into a slough of self-pity, and so Sam contrives to break the fall.
Let's say that the Democrats retake the House, and the economy is still mired in the slough of despond.
He used to become depressed upon finishing an album, the creative high replaced by a listless slough of despond.
Nearly everywhere there are signs that the prodigal economy is staggering home from its three-year slough of despond.
They must face capitalist reality or sink in a slough of socialist delusion, dragging Scotland down with them.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Anderson was convinced that the bed of that slough, if uncovered, could unfold a tale.
In a moment, by one word, I can throw you back into the slough from whence I dragged you.
One false step and you are over a precipice, or up to your neck in a slough.
In captivity the Gila monster begins to slough about January and continues this process during several months.
The greatest danger is hmorrhage, and the other is sepsis when the placenta has been left to slough.
A mass of dead tissue in a soft part is termed a slough, while the same in bone is called a sequestrum.
Then the only way we could get off was down over a rough, shoaly slough, where she went like a bucking broncho.
A leaning log angled from the bank into the slough, and the surviving muskrat sat on it, shucking a fresh-water mussel.
As he came down to the slough, all too late he had realized whither he was heading.
Man has too much to do to lift himself out of the still clinging primordial slough to dally with subjectiveness.
The skin may suppurate or slough more or less over the areas of greatest tension or where it is irritated by blows or pressure.
Often the lining membranes of the mouth, throat and tonsils slough and bleed.
I remember, on one occasion, going to a small slough making out of the lake among the tules.
I've knew that light-green slough grass to cover the wurst sort o' quicksand.
It is the wound remaining after the slough which we may really regard as a quittor.
A cemetery by the sea, a peak of glory, a slough of despond.
When Palmer first entered the city he found it situated in a slough.
It had taken to the grass, and was heading straight for the miry slough.
There was a slough or a creek leading out of it on the other side that went miles away, I don't know where, but it didn't go to the river.
Hundreds of Greek and Italian fishermen, up river and down bay, had searched every slough and tule patch for it.
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