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S vs Debridement - What's the difference?

s | debridement |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun debridement is

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

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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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