the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > remove or disperse [verb (transitive)] > cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc. (3)
roync1350
transitive. To pare away (putrid matter) from a sore; (also) to trim back (the edges of a wound). Obsolete.
scoura1475
To cleanse (a wound, ulcer, the entrails of an animal) by treating with some medicament.