Medical term:
maceration
maceration
[mas″ĕ-ra´shun]the softening of a solid by soaking. In histology, the softening of a tissue by soaking, especially in acids, until the connective tissue fibers are dissolved so that the tissue components can be teased apart. In obstetrics, the degenerative changes with discoloration and softening of tissues, and eventual disintegration, of a fetus retained in the uterus after its death.
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mac·er·a·tion
(mas'ĕr-ā'shŭn),1. Softening by the action of a liquid.
2. Softening of tissues after death by nonputrefactive (sterile) autolysis; seen especially in the stillborn, with detachment of the epidermis.
[L. macero, pp. -atus, to soften by soaking]
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maceration
ObstetricsThe sloughing of immature skin from a foetus that died in vivo and was not immediately evacuated from the uterus.
Wound care
Necrotic tissue that has been moist for a prolonged period and undergone deterioration.
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maceration
Obstetrics The sloughing of wads of immature skin from a fetus that died in vivo and wasn't immediately evacuated from the uterus Wound care Generic nastiness of a wound or ulcer which has been wet way too longMcGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
mac·er·a·tion
(mas'ěr-ā'shŭn)1. Softening by the action of a liquid.
2. Softening of tissues after death by nonputrefactive (sterile) autolysis; seen especially in the stillborn, with bullous separation of the epidermis.
[L. macero, pp. -atus, to soften by soaking]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
mac·er·a·tion
(mas'ěr-ā'shŭn)Softening by the action of a liquid.
[L. macero, pp. -atus, to soften by soaking]
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