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Sphacelus :: Sphacelus (n.) Gangrenous part; gangrene; slough.

Slough :: Slough () imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew..

Slough :: Slough (n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

Aphthae :: Aphthae (n. pl.) Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush..

Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax..

Sloughy :: Sloughy (a.) Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh..

Sloughed :: Sloughed (imp. & p. p.) of Sloug.

Slue :: Slue (n.) A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2..

Sloughy :: Sloughy (a.) Full of sloughs, miry..

Sloughing :: Sloughing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sloug.

Spoilable :: Spoil (n.) The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal..

Sloughing :: Sloughing (n.) The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis..

Slough :: Slough (a.) Slow.

Slough :: Slough (n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.

Welter :: Welter (n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough..

Slough :: Slough (v. t.) To cast off; to discard as refuse.

Swig :: Swig (v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off..

Slough :: Slough (n.) The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal..

Smallpox :: Smallpox (n.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar..

Canker :: Canker (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma..

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