sloughing definition medical
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slough Definition of slough. 1  1a : a place of deep mud or mireb or less commonly slew or slue play \ˈslü\ (1) : swamp (2) : an inlet on a river; also : backwater (3) : a creek in a marsh or tide flat. 2  2 : a state of moral degradation or spiritual dejection.
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- slough off something. to ignore something or behave as if it was unimportant Politicians sloughed off public anger over the hospital cutbacks until several newspapers ran articles about it. He wrecked the car and then tried to slough it off like it was nothing.
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slough slough-a hollow filled with mud. bog, peat bog-wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel.lough 1. A usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water: bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, muskeg, quag, quagmire, swamp, swampland, wetland.
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- scab. 1  the incrustation that forms over a sore or wound during healing. 2  Veterinary Pathology. a mangy disease in animals, especially sheep; scabies. 3  Plant Pathology. a disease of plants characterized by crustlike lesions on the affected parts and caused by a fungus or bacterium. one of these crustlike lesions.
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- Slough is defined as yellow devitalized tissue, that can be stringy or thick and adherent on the tissue bed. This wound bed has both yellow stringy slough as well as thick adherent slough. Slough on a wound bed should be surgically debrided to allow for ingrowth of healthy granulation tissue.
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necrosis Medical Definition of NECROSIS. : death of living tissue; specifically: death of a portion of tissue differentially affected by local injury (as loss of blood supply, corrosion, burning, or the local lesion of a disease)—compare necrobiosis.edical Definition of NECROSIS. : death of living tissue; specifically: death of a portion of tissue differentially affected by local injury (as loss of blood supply, corrosion, burning, or the local lesion of a disease)—compare necrobiosis.
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desquamation desquamation. [des′kwəmā′shən]. Etymology: L, desquamare, to take off scales. a normal process in which the cornified layer of the epidermis is sloughed in fine scales. Certain conditions, injuries, and medications accelerate desquamation and may cause peeling and the loss of deeper layers of the skin. Also called exfoliation. desquamate, v., desquamative adj.
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- slough1. 1  an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region. 2  a hole full of mire, as in a road. 3  Also, slew, slue. 4  a condition of degradation, despair, or helplessness.
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What is slough? Slough has different meanings as a nounn and as a verb: As a verb it can be used as a verb with similar meanings to th e above: Also as verb it can mean: 1  As a noun it can be a depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or shallow water. Also aa noun it can mean the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically. 2  This is similar to the medical meaning where it refers to any dead skin or tissue that will peel off. 3  As a noun it can refer to a discarded card in a card game.. 4  To shed or cast off, as the slough of a snake.
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- Definitions. 1  the process by which a material (illuvium), which includes colloids and mineral salts, is washed down from one layer of soil to a lower layer. Trends. 2  the process by which a material (illuvium), which includes colloids and mineral salts, is washed down from one layer of soil to a lower layer.
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Sloughing For other uses, see Sloughing (disambiguation). Sloughing (pronounced sluffing) in biology refers to the act of shedding or casting off dead tissue, such as cells of the endometrium, shed during menstruation, or the shedding of skin in amphibians. Skin sloughing is the process of shedding dead surface cells from the skin.
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Medical Dictionary Medical Definition of Necrosis. Necrosis: The death of living cells or tissues. Necrosis can be due, for example, to ischemia (lack of blood flow). From the Greek nekros (dead body).
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slough 1 to cast off (as the skin of a snake or other animal), 1720, originally of diseased tissue, from Middle English noun slough shed skin of a snake (see slough (n.)). Related: Sloughed; sloughing.
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- tissue (redirected from tissue sloughing) Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical.
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What is a slough? A slough is a swamp or shallow lake system, usually a backwater to a larger body of water. South Slough is a 4,771-acre National Estuarine Research Reserve located on Coos Bay Estuary in Oregon (Image credit: South Slough NERR). A slough (pronounced slew) is typically used to describe wetlands.
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slough 1 to cast off (as the skin of a snake or other animal), 1720, originally of diseased tissue, from Middle English noun slough shed skin of a snake (see slough (n.)). Related: Sloughed; sloughing. n. A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, a sore, or an inflammation. v. sloughed, slough·ing, sloughs. To separate from surrounding living tissue. Used of dead tissue.
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- Definition of slop. 1  1 : soft mud : slush. 2  2 : thin tasteless drink or liquid food —usually used in plural. 3  3 : liquid spilled or splashed.  4a : food waste (as garbage) fed to animals : swill 2ab : excreted body waste —usually used in pluralc : a product of little or no value : rubbish watching the usual slop on TV.
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Medical Dictionary See the entire definition of Ankle. Biopsy: The removal of a sample of tissue for examination under a microscope to check for ... See the entire definition of Biopsy. Callus: 1. A localized firm thickening of the upper layer of skin as a result of re... See the entire definition of Callus
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- Medical Definition of GENOCIDE. : the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group—compare homicide.— geno·cid·al \ˌjen-ə-ˈsīd-əl\ adjective.edical Definition of GENOCIDE. : the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group—compare homicide.
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Joseph Lister February 10, 1912. Walmer, England. Joseph Lister, Baron Lister, also called (1883–97) Sir Joseph Lister, Baronet (born April 5, 1827, Upton, Essex, Eng.—died Feb. 10, 1912, Walmer, Kent) British surgeon and medical scientist who was the founder of antiseptic medicine and a pioneer in preventive medicine.
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maceration The sloughing of immature skin from a foetus that died in vivo and was not immediately evacuated from the uterus. Wound care. Necrotic tissue that has been moist for a prolonged period and undergone deterioration.
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slough Medical humour. noun A deprecating term for a patient that a doctor, ward or hospital tries to pass off on another doctor, ward or hospital without appropriate indications. Wound care. noun Dead skin or tissue that has fallen off of decubital ulcers or other parts of the patient’s body. verb To shed or remove dead tissue.
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sclerosis Noun. 1. sclerosis-any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue. induration. disseminated multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, MS, multiple sclerosis-a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.cle•ro•sis. 1. a hardening of a body tissue or part, or an increase of connective tissue or the like at the expense of more active tissue. 2. a hardening of a plant tissue or cell wall by thickening or becoming woody.
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Slough Slough (/ˈslaʊ/) is a large town and unitary authority area in Berkshire, 21 miles (34 km) west of London, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Windsor, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Maidenhead, 12 miles (19 km) south-east of High Wycombe and 20 miles (32 km) north-east of Reading.
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- Slough or eschar may be present on some parts of the wound bed. Often include undermining and tunneling. Unstageable - Full thickness tissue loss in which the base of the ulcer is covered by slough (yellow, tan, gray, green or brown) and/or eschar (tan, brown or black) in the wound bed.
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Sloughing Skin sloughing is the process of shedding dead surface cells from the skin. In veterinary medicine, it may refer to the process where necrotic surface epithelial cells are discarded from the small intestinal mucosa following various infections which may occur within both monogastrics or ruminants.