Wound Care Terminology
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Original Editor - Stacy Schiurring
Top Contributors - Stacy Schiurring and Kim Jackson
Introduction[edit | edit source]
The terminology is listed in alphabetical order.
A[edit | edit source]
- Antisepetics/antibiotics
- Aseptic/clean
- Atrophie blanche
B[edit | edit source]
- Biofilm
- Biopsy
- Blanchable erythemia
- Burn wound
C[edit | edit source]
- Callus
- Charcot foot
- Circumferential
- Colonization
- Contamination
- Cyanotic
- Cytotoxic
D[edit | edit source]
- Debridement: sharp, mechanical, autolytic, excisional
- Debris
- Dehiscence
- Dependent rubor
- Desiccation
E[edit | edit source]
- Epithelial bridging
- Epithelial cells
- Erythemia
- Eschar
- Exudate
F[edit | edit source]
- Friable
G[edit | edit source]
- Gaiter area
- Granulation tissue
H[edit | edit source]
- Hemosiderin staining
- Hemostasis
- Hydrotherapy
- Hypergranulation
- Hypertrophic nails
I[edit | edit source]
- Iatrogenic
- Induration
- Infection
- Ischaemia
J[edit | edit source]
K[edit | edit source]
L[edit | edit source]
- Lab culture
M[edit | edit source]
- Maceration
N[edit | edit source]
- Necrosis
- Nonsterile
- Non-viable tissue
O[edit | edit source]
- Oedema/pitting
- Onychomycosis
P[edit | edit source]
- Periwound
- Petechiae
- Primary intention
- Pseudo-Eschar
- Purulent/purulence
Q[edit | edit source]
R[edit | edit source]
- Re-epithelialization
S[edit | edit source]
- Scab
- Secondary intention
- Sepsis
- Slough
- Sterile
- Surfactant
T[edit | edit source]
- Topic agents
U[edit | edit source]
V[edit | edit source]
W[edit | edit source]
- Wound bed
- Wound border
- Wound margins
X[edit | edit source]
Y[edit | edit source]
Z[edit | edit source]
Resources[edit | edit source]
- bulleted list
- x
or
- numbered list
- x
