Debridement vs Scaling - What's the difference?
debridement | scaling |
(medicine) The removal of damaged or foreign tissue from a wound.
* 2003 , Rodriguez-Merchan, The Haemophilic Joints: New Perspectives (Blackwell 2003), page 96:
The removing of the scales of fish
The formation of a layer of scale on a surface
The removal of a layer of scale from a surface
The measurement of dimensions using a scale
(mathematics, physics) The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities
As nouns the difference between debridement and scaling
is that debridement is (medicine) the removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue while scaling is the removing of the scales of fish.As a verb scaling is
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Noun
(en noun)- In view of the underlying pathology, débridement is usually combined with late synovectomy.