eschar

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a dry, dark scab or scar, especially as a result of burning
{n} a scar, mark, wound healed
{i} scab, hard crust which forms over a wound (Medicine)
A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics
Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams
A scab consisting of dried serum and devitalised dermal cells
In medicine, this term describes a slough or dry scab that forms, for example, on an area of skin that has been burnt or exposed to corrosive agents
Thick dried scab
In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country
a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin
(scab) a thick, leathery crust of dead tissue often covering an underlying necrotic process
Thick, leathery, necrotic, devitalized tissue
eschar

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    es·char

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    [ 'es-"kär ] (noun.) 1543. French eschare (now escarre) or late Latin eschara ‘scar, scab’, from Greek εσχαρα ‘hearth, brazier, scab’.
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