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Definition: Eschar |
EscharNoun1. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Layer | Plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument; (covering); eschar. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eschar |
| English words defined with "eschar": Escharotic, Esker. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "eschar": Scorn. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eschar | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eschar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | ندبة (stigma). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | струпей (scab), коричка на рана от изгорено. (various references) | |
Czech | louže (plash, pool, puddle, splash). (various references) | |
Danish | escara (gangrenous crust), brandsårsnekrose (gangrenous crust), brandsårskorpe (gangrenous crust). (various references) | |
Dutch | eschara (gangrenous crust), crusta gangraenosa (gangrenous crust). (various references) | |
French | escarrification, escarre de brûlure. (various references) | |
German | Brandschorf (gangrenous crust). (various references) | |
Hungarian | égési var. (various references) | |
Italian | escara da ustione (gangrenous crust). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | escharay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | escara (bedsore, decubitus ulcer). (various references) | |
Russian | струп (crust, scab). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | eshara. (various references) | |
Spanish | escara (bedsore, caustic burn, decubitus ulcer, escharotic burn, third-degree burn), costra negra gangrenosa (gangrenous crust). (various references) | |
Swedish | sårskorpa (scab, Slough). (various references) | |
Turkish | kabuk (bark, carapace, coat, cockle, cockleshell, cortes, covering, crust, encrustation, Hull, husk, incrustation, integument, jacket, mantle, nutshell, Peel, pod, rind, scab, scale, scurf, shell, shuck, skin, squama). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | струп (crust, scab). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eschar": escharotic, escharotics, eschars. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: arches, chares, chaser, search. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aches, acres, cares, carse, chare, chars, chase, crash, escar, hares, hears, races, reach, rheas, scare, serac, share, shear. | |
-2 letters: aces, ache, acre, arch, arcs, ares, arse, care, cars, case, cash, char, each, ears, eras, haes, hare, hear, hers, race, rase, rash, recs, resh, rhea, scar, sear, sera, shea. | |
-3 letters: ace, arc, are, ars. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-r-s" | |
+1 letter: archers, braches, cahiers, cashier, chafers, charges, chasers, chaster, chawers, choreas, clasher, crashed, crasher, crashes, echards, eparchs, eschars, exarchs, hackers, hyraces, larches, marches, mesarch, oraches, parches, rachets, ranches, ratches, reaches, roaches, schmear. | |
+2 letters: archaise, archines, archives, archness, aspheric, batchers, becharms, brachets, branches, breaches, brechams, brechans, broaches, caroches, cashiers, cashmere, catchers, chaffers, chambers, chamfers, champers, chancres, changers, chanters, chapters, charades, charases, chargers, chariest, charleys, charlies, charmers, charnels, charters, chasseur, chatters, chaufers, cheaters, cheddars, chimeras, choleras, chorales, chresard, clashers, coachers, cranches, crashers, cratches, earaches, enchaser, eucharis, hachures, hacklers, hardcase, hatchers, hectares, horsecar, inarches, leachers, machrees, marchers, marchesa, marchese, marchesi, matchers, parchesi, patchers, peachers, poachers, preaches, precrash, purchase, rachides, rachises, ranchers, ratchets, raunches, reachers, recharts, recheats, research, scarphed, schmears, searched, searcher, searches, seraphic, shackler, snatcher, stancher, starched, starches, teachers, theriacs, thoraces, tracheas, trachles, tranches, watchers, whackers, yachters. | |
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