Friday, September 16, 2011

Word of the day: débridement

The word of the day is débridement:

Etymology:  French, lit. ‘unbridling’.
Surg.
The removal from a wound, etc., of damaged tissue or foreign matter. (OED)


T-REX:  Sometimes if you have a festering wound, doctors will prescribe maggots!  Certain breeds only eat dead tissue and ignore healthy tissue, which cleans out the wound at a level a surgeon simply couldn't!  NICE.
DROMICEIOMIMUS: That's no secret, T-Rex!  Maggot debridement has been around since antiquity.

 - "DID YOU KNOW: you don't even get to keep it/them afterwards", 15 September 2011 Dinosaur Comics

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