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proud flesh

noun

, Pathology.


proud flesh

noun

  1. a non-technical name for granulation tissue
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of proud flesh1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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Word History and Origins

Origin of proud flesh1

C14: from proud (in the sense: swollen, protruding)
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Example Sentences

It is chiefly used as an escharotic, to destroy proud flesh, &c.

It grows rigid and callous; and for the softness and elasticity of childhood, full of proud flesh and obstinate tumours.

And if there be proud flesh, it should be touched with a bit of blue vitriol, or sprinkled with a little burnt alum.

The term “proud flesh” is popularly applied to such redundant granulations.

It may be imagined what a severe thorn her eldest son proved in the proud flesh of his mother.

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