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noun a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin
originFrom Middle French eschare (now escarre) or Late Latin eschara (“scar, scab”), from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “hearth, brazier, scab”). Doublet of scar.
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