Crossword clues for sloughing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slough \Slough\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sloughed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sloughing.] (Med.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
Sloughing \Slough"ing\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something sloughed off. 2 (context zoology English) The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis. vb. (present participle of slough English)
WordNet
n. the process whereby something is shed [syn: shedding]
Wikipedia
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.
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.
In medicine, slough may start occurring in Pressure ulcer also known as Decubitus Ulcers or as Bed Sores at the stage 3, and in stage 4 levels of wound, infection, and damage.
In plants, sloughing occurs during root growth, where cells from the root cap are shed to the soil where they are biologically processed by microorganisms. Also, when a root undergoes secondary growth (transition from a primary root to a "woody" root), the cortex and epidermis become isolated from the rest of the root and are eventually sloughed.
Sloughing may refer to:
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Sloughing, in biology, shedding or casting off dead tissue
- Skin sloughing, shedding dead surface cells off the skin
- Soil sloughing, a type of soil behavior
- Derivations from various meanings if the term "slough"
Usage examples of "sloughing".
It was a good two hours of methodical sloughing ahead before he came in sight of the sentinel pine Art had told him about.
The blackened flesh was sloughing away from bones that looked less human than the People had seemed in life.
Though he was on the verge of extinction, he had boundless capacity for malice in him and, with the Pivot's sloughings still fixed in his flesh, the power to do harm.
To go on, into the place of sloughings and furies and abandonments that lay ahead, he would need to look to his instincts, and hope they were sharp enough to protect him.