Schorf — meaning in English

English meaning

• dandruff noun Small white flakes of dead skin that shed from the scalp.
• scab noun A dry, hard crust that forms over a wound as it heals.
• slough noun The old skin shed by a snake, or dead tissue that separates from a wound.

Senses

Schorf is used for these senses in English:

• dandruff scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp; Pityriasis capitis
• eschar (loose or obsolete) Any hard, dark, commonly flattened or sunken lesion or crust, especially on a burn, abscess, infection, wound; commonly a coagulation of blood or exudations, not necessarily involving dead or necrotic tissue.
• scab An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
• scab (plant disease) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
• slough Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.

scab — full definition

1. noun A dry, hard crust that forms over a wound as it heals.
2. noun An insulting term for a worker who continues working, or takes a striking worker's job, during a labour strike.
3. verb To act as a strikebreaker.

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