healing by first intention
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That cut of mine has not the slightest intention of healing by first intention; it is gaping as widely as ever, as far as I can judge.
From Sweetapple Cove by Van Schaick, George
If one cannot quickly start the healing by first intention, a sore back, in this climate, will ruin a mule.
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Comfort, Will Levington
This wonderful cure was then simply the process of what surgeons call healing by first intention, which means uniting the lips of the wound without suppuration.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
The significance of dropsy, suture of divided nerves, healing by first intention.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
This process was practically incompatible with the ideal form of healing, known as healing by first intention, i.e., union without appreciable loss of substance or the formation of pus or matter.
From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Gordon, Henry Laing
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