scab (skab)

i.; pret. and pp. scabbed, ppr. scabbing. [ formation of a new skin or cicatrix. Even granulating sores heal by the gradual proce of cicatrisation from the edges-heal by scabbing in a way that we have never seen so satisfactory under any other dre ing. Lancet, No. 3454, p. 946. In the "gla snake" and other low orders of life, repair is usually by primary adhesion, by scabbing , or more rarely immediate union. Sci . Amer ., N. S., LVII. 277.