Sloughing Definition

Sloughing Sentence Examples

• Sometimes the long life of the serpent and its habit of changing the skin suggested ideas of immortality and resurrection, and it is noteworthy that one Indian snake-festival occurs after or at the sloughing, when the sacred being is thus supposed to become purified.'

• Hypodermic injection of strychnine, in some cases as much as one to two grains (but not into a vein!), has in some cases had good results; but injection of ammonia, instead of doing any good, has disastrous sloughing results.

• The result is dulness of sight, a stagnation of the vital circulations, and a general deliquium and sloughing off of all the intellectual faculties.

• The local pain becomes intense with the wound sloughing tissue often down to the bone.

• Larval Therapy This can be a useful treatment, especially for sloughing open wounds, which are infected with MRSA.