PROUD FLESH

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The swollen tissue around a healing wound or ulcer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("proud flesh" is a kind of...):

granulation; granulation tissue (new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process)

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