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1pathol.med.(suppurating) irritation of the skin, (purulent) sore:
(
c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4
)
[D]es borbletes e des rupturus de la char que avenunt en la quisse [...] [D]es quichuns qui avenunt en la quise e es jambes e es pez [...]
A-N Med i 83.xvii
2med.cauterization, the process of burning skin or flesh of a wound with a heated instrument or caustic substance to prevent infection or stop bleeding:
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s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4
)
pregne l’en cardons de mer et [...], et les face l’en boillir en ewe de mer [...] et face l’en li malade geun entrer en ite[l] baign. Quisçons faites si sunt bones
A-N Med i 248.185
(
MS: s.xv
)
E la poudre devant dite vauzt a fere quison sanz fere e sanz feu
Five Med MSS 103.S148
[cuison] (s.xiii2/4)