Usually, however, the wound is inflamed and suppurating, with ragged and sloughy edges.
The only satisfactory treatment is thorough removal under an anæsthetic of all the sloughy tissue, with the surrounding zone in which the organisms are active.
The excrescence is generally of a dark colour, resembling a mass of coagulated blood, but of more soft consistence, and its extremity has often a sloughy appearance.
Next day, he was delirious, and a hernia cerebri protruded, of sloughy appearance, and considerable size; pulse 142.
When an external wound exists, the altered appearance of the bone, with the sloughy state of the detached pericranium, gives evident warning of the mischief which is proceeding internally.
The floor is generally sloughy and soft, and often presents warty outgrowths.
The ulceration is caused either by fatty degeneration and molecular disintegration of the surface of the tumor or by the separation of sloughy masses.
A quantity of offensive sloughy matter is brought away; the acid discharge is rendered harmless; the running from the nose and diarrhoea cease, &c.
But then his people were already developing those rabid ulcers, syphilis had weakened their constitutions, a puncture of a thorn in the face grew into a horrid and sloughy sore; they had pastured on vice and were reaping the consequences.
On the 20th the Expedition moved through the thick forest, along an extremely sloughypath to a little village removed one and a half hours from the river.
Belts of sloughy mud, disparted by small streams, divided one village from another.
The high ground comes close to the river at Savanna, but on the Iowan side there is sloughy bottom for 4 m.
The present (or recent) channel is turbid and sloughyfor some miles up from its contracted opening into the Mississippi, reminding one of the similar but more pronounced expansion of St. Croix r.
The trough of the river is similar on the Illinois side, but the hills do not hug the river so closely, leaving a stretch of sloughy bottom, especially at the delta of the Galena r.
Approaching Clayton the banks are high and abrupt on the Iowan side, but on the other the hills recede, leaving a sloughy bottom into which several creeks empty, one of them Sandy cr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sloughy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dirty; miry; mucky; muddy; plashy; sloppy; sludgy; slushy; soft; splashy; squashy; turbid
