healing by first intention

noun

, Surgery, Medicine/Medical.

1. intention6

Example Sentences

This wonderful cure was then simply the process of what surgeons call healing by first intention, which means uniting the lips of the wound without suppuration.

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Almost more surprising than the question of dropsy is the investigation as to the causes of the failure of healing by first intention.

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The significance of dropsy, suture of divided nerves, healing by first intention.

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Another worker on more strictly scientific lines had by that time made healing by first intention, without complications, the rule instead of the exception, and conferred a benefit on humanity as great if not greater than that of an�sthesia.

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This process was practically incompatible with the ideal form of healing, known as healing by first intention, i.e., union without appreciable loss of substance or the formation of pus or matter.

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