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Definition of Debridement
1. Noun. Surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing.
Definition of Debridement
1. Noun. (medicine) the removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue. Often this removal is surgical, but other methods include mechanical, chemical, autolytic, and even maggot therapy. ¹
2. Noun. (dentistry) the removal of the dental tartar that has accumulated over teeth, typically done using hand tools and ultrasound instruments. ¹
3. Noun. (medicine) the removal of damaged or foreign tissue from a wound ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Debridement
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Medical Definition of Debridement
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Literary usage of Debridement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatment Of Pressure Ulcers: Clinical Practice Guideline by Nancy Bergstrom (1997)
"debridement Moist, devitalized tissue supports the growth of pathological ...
Although debridement is a time-honored modality for treating pressure ulcers, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1870)
"Chir. Reo., July, 1870, from Journ. de Mid. de Bruxelles, Jan., Feb., March. 58.
Observations on the Treatment of Gonorrhoea! Orchitis by debridement of the ..."
3. Radium; Abstracts of Selected Articles on Radium and Radium Therapy by United States Radium Corporation, American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"... there is considerable scarring and sclerosis in the region of the tumor,
surgical debridement may be necessary to make free access to the tumor possible ..."
4. American Medicine (1921)
"The theory of surgical sterilization, or debridement, is as follows: Given
a .recent, grossly contaminated wound, it is possible, provided acute infection ..."
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