proud flesh
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Noun (1)
- the swollen tissue around a healing wound or ulcerType of granulation, granulation tissue
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Proud flesh
. See under Proud.
From the entry Flesh.
Proud flesh
Medicine, a fungous growth or excrescence of granulations resembling flesh, in a wound or ulcer.
From the entry Proud.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54