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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