decrustation

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Etymology

Noun of action from the Latin dēcrustō (“I peel off ”), from dē + crustō (“I crust”, from crusta, “crust”). Compare the Old French décrustation.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /diːˈkɹʌsteɪʃən/, /diːˈkɹʊsteɪʃən/

Noun

decrustation (usually uncountable, plural decrustations)

  1. The removal of a crust (various senses).
    • 1860 January 5, B. Joy Jeffries, “Report of Prof. Ferdinand Hebra's Lectures on Variola”, in Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 61, number 23, →OCLC, page 455:
      Decrustation occurs quickest in varicella, slower in variola modificata, and slowest in variola vera. Or, in other words, the greater the amount of eruption the slower the decrustation, and the reverse.
    • 1917, Lewellys F. Barker, “Smallpox”, in Monographic Medicine: The Clinical Diagnosis of Internal Diseases, volume 2, New York: D. Appleton & Co., →OCLC, page 430:
      Stage of Decrustation.—At the end of the third week the scabs begin to loosen and to fall off, leaving brownish, pigmented areas or scars behind.
    • 1991, Z. L. Lin, J. Y. Li, J. Y. Wu, “Application of Chinese Medicinal Decrustation Treatment to Deep Burns of the Hand”, in P.C. Leung et al., editors, Burns: Treatment And Research‎, Singapore: World Scientific, →ISBN, page 113:
      From January 1970 to December 1979, 40 cases of severely burned hands were treated with Chinese medicinal decrustation. […] The medicine was applied to the burn wounds from the day of injury until the third day after injury. Decrustation took place 7–10 days after use of medicine. Narcotic tissue fell off on decrustation, pus was abundant and skin islands were visible.

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