Meaning & use
sloughy
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Consisting of or resembling a slough, a swamp or area of soft, muddy ground; or, in medicine, characterized by dead tissue separating from living tissue.
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The hikers trudged through sloughy marshland near the riverbank.
The nurse cleaned the wound to remove sloughy tissue before dressing it.
A note on using this word
Has two distinct technical uses: one in geography (boggy ground) and one in medicine (dead tissue at a wound site).
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dry
Another way to use it
2. adjective
Relating to or characteristic of dead tissue separating from a wound.
The doctor debrided the sloughy edges of the ulcer.
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