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Sphacelus :: Sphacelus (n.) Gangrenous part; gangrene; slough.

Smallpox :: Smallpox (n.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar..

Slough :: Slough (n.) The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal..

Canker :: Canker (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma..

Slough :: Slough (v. i.) 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..

Slough :: Slough (v. t.) To cast off; to discard as refuse.

Slough :: Slough () imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew..

Welter :: Welter (n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough..

Sloughed :: Sloughed (imp. & p. p.) of Sloug.

Slough :: Slough (n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.

Sloughy :: Sloughy (a.) Full of sloughs, miry..

Slue :: Slue (n.) A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2..

Sloughy :: Sloughy (a.) Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh..

Eschar :: Eschar (n.) 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..

Sloughing :: Sloughing (n.) The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis..

Aphthae :: Aphthae (n. pl.) Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush..

Swig :: Swig (v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off..

Slough :: Slough (n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

Slough :: Slough (a.) Slow.

Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax..

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