issue pea

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English

Noun

issue pea (plural issue peas)

  1. (medicine, archaic) A pea, or similar round body, used to maintain irritation in a wound, and promote the secretion and discharge of pus.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for issue pea”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)