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What does debride mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To remove necrotic tissue or foreign matter from (a wound or the like).
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Last year, 30,000 NHS patients were treated with maggots to debride their wounds.
She underwent a second surgery to reopen, irrigate, and debride the original wound.
At the diabetes centre, larval therapy has been used for several years to debride sloughy diabetic foot ulcers.
They explain how to decide when and when not to debride, how to evaluate and work with the shape of the wound, and the types of tissues to debride.
Humming above me, they debride the gallery, disappear inside.
Surgery may be necessary to drain abscesses, debride infected tissue, or stabilize the spine and relieve spinal cord compression.

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