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Exfoliate vs Debridement - What's the difference?

exfoliate | debridement |

As a verb exfoliate

is to remove the leaves from a plant.

As a noun debridement is

(medicine) the removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue.

exfoliate

English

(Exfoliation)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To remove the leaves from a plant.
  • To remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation.
  • (mineralogy) To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales as the result of heat or decomposition.

    • Derived terms

    * exfoliant * foliate * foliation * exfoliating * exfoliation

    debridement

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) The removal of damaged or foreign tissue from a wound.
  • * 2003 , Rodriguez-Merchan, The Haemophilic Joints: New Perspectives (Blackwell 2003), page 96:
    • In view of the underlying pathology, débridement is usually combined with late synovectomy.
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