Sentence examples for secondary intention from inspiring English sources

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secondary intention

noun

Allowing a wound to heal without being sutured.

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The secondary intention of the policy, the officials said, is to limit information that might give pranksters ideas.

In this way, it was very clear that the play was designed for a hearing audience with a secondary intention of being accessible to the Deaf.

Detective Superintendent Keith Niven, of the Metropolitan police, who led the British team called on by the Antiguan authorities to help with the investigation, said he was convinced Martin and Howell's main aim had been to kill first – and robbery was a secondary intention.

Healing by secondary intention.

The wound finally healed by secondary intention.

All these cases, healed with secondary intention after regular dressing.

The open areas were healed by secondary intention (illustration 11).

In 1 case debridement was required, and in the other healing occurred by secondary intention.

Secondary intention uses skin contraction to heal the fasciotomy wound [11].

No additional care is required for pin sites as these heal quickly by secondary intention.

Wound dehisence was observed in two patients, which healed by secondary intention.

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