second intention

American  

noun

Logic.

1. intention5b

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Example Sentences

Healing by second intention is characterized by pus formation and granulation tissue.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.

Even then the milk would have a suspicious flavor, or post-mortem smell, I apprehend; it would be the same thing, by second intention, as the surgeons say.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

Healing then occurs by granulation or suppuration, which is termed healing by second intention.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

"You mean the second intention, don't you?" sais I. "No," he replied, "I mean what I say."

From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler

As the play proceeds he is made, as if with a second intention, more and more the antithesis, as he is the antipathy, of the prince.

From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various