healing by first intention
Americannoun
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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 Will Levington Comfort
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 George Van Schaick
The foot remained very cold for the first twenty-four hours, but otherwise progress was satisfactory, the wound healing by first intention.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Almost more surprising than the question of dropsy is the investigation as to the causes of the failure of healing by first intention.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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