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Debride

Debride \De*bride"\, v. to remove (e. g., dead tissue) surgically from a wound.

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debride

vb. (context transitive English) To remove necrotic tissue or foreign matter from (a wound or the like).

Usage examples of "debride".

There were a couple of other face wounds, or blades driven in under armpits, or in the back of the leg. The doctor sewed and bandaged, debrided and cleansed.

She gave a small shudder, closing her eyes at the memory of the elderly gentleman whose ulcerated heel I had debrided the day before.

The fire in Slade's blood damped down as the compress debrided, then covered, the swatches where the skin was dead.

Blocks the nerve, shuts down the bleeding, debrides and disinfects the wound, all in seconds.

Usually anything that penetrated a suit was fatal, but, again, if the trooper survived the initial shock the suits would keep them alive until pickup, sealing the injury, debriding the wound, attacking infection and either putting the trooper out or shutting down the nerve endings depending on the tactical situation.

Still shaking, Lunzie began debriding his wounds and slapping patches of synthskin on them.

She remembered treating burn victims in her third year of medical school and the horrid screams that went with debriding burned tissue off the underlying wounds, and there wasn't a damned thing you could do about it.