Verb (used with object) : to slough off a bad habit. From Dictionary.com.
And that element is very much the center to this tale of terrorism and sloughy bureaucracy. From Wordnik.com. [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference
"We found no evidence to recommend the routine use of larval therapy on sloughy leg ulcers to speed up healing or reduce bacterial load," the researchers said. From Wordnik.com. [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference
"We found no evidence to recommend the routine use of larval therapy on sloughy leg ulcers to speed up healing or reduce bacterial load," Dumville and colleagues conclude. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
They concluded that "debridement of sloughy or necrotic leg ulcers with larval therapy is likely to produce similar health benefits and have similar costs to treatment with hydrogel.". From Wordnik.com. [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference
For this study, Cullum and colleagues compared the clinical effectiveness of larval therapy (maggots) with a standard debridement technique (hydrogel) for sloughy or necrotic leg ulcers. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
"Larval therapy did not improve the rate of healing of sloughy or necrotic leg ulcers or reduce bacterial load compared with hydrogel but did significantly reduce the time to debridement and increase ulcer pain.". From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
Gummatous ulcers are usually situated on the dorsum, are frequently multiple, and have sloughy, undermined edges; the surrounding parts, although indurated, are not so densely hard as in cancer; there is not necessarily any involvement of lymph glands. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
They recruited 267 patients who were about to be treated for at least one venous or mixed arterial and venous leg ulcer where at least 25 per cent of the tissue had died (become sloughy) and where the ankle brachial pressure index was 0.6 or more (the ratio of the leg blood pressure to the arm blood pressure). From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
A highly inflamed state, it often passes into a foul and sloughy condition; the breath of the patient becomes extremely fetid; the nostrils, the parotid and submaxillary glands swell enormously, so that swallowing and breathing become very difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference
Impelled by curiosity, I walked about endeavouring to ascertain to what place chance, or rather the pony, had brought me; following the driftway for some time, amidst bushes and stunted trees, I came to a grove of dark pines, through which it appeared to lead; I tracked it a few hundred yards, but seeing nothing but trees, and the way being wet and sloughy, owing to the recent rain. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro] Reference
Impelled by curiosity, I walked about endeavouring to ascertain to what place chance, or rather the pony, had brought me; following the driftway for some time, amidst bushes and stunted trees, I came to a grove of dark pines, through which it appeared to lead; I tracked it a few hundred yards, but seeing nothing but trees, and the way being wet and sloughy, owing to the recent rain, I returned on my steps, and, pursuing the path in another direction, came to a sandy road leading over a common, doubtless the one I had traversed the preceding night. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
Impelled by curiosity, I walked about, endeavouring to ascertain to what place chance, or rather the pony, had brought me; following the driftway for some time, amidst bushes and stunted trees, I came to a grove of dark pines, through which it appeared to lead; I tracked it a few hundred yards, but seeing nothing but trees, and the way being wet and sloughy, owing to the recent rain, I returned on my steps, and, pursuing the path in another direction, came to a sandy road leading over a common, doubtless the one I had traversed the preceding night. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
Impelled by curiosity, I walked about endeavouring to ascertain to what place chance, or rather the pony, had brought me; following the drift-way for some time, amidst bushes and stunted trees, I came to a grove of dark pines, through which it appeared to lead; I tracked it a few hundred yards, but seeing nothing but trees, and the way being wet and sloughy, owing to the recent rain, I returned on my steps, and, pursuing the path in another direction, came to a sandy road leading over a common, doubtless the one I had traversed the preceding night. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference
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