Look up: scab

1. scab
   Any of a wide range of unrelated plant diseases having a roughened, crustlike diseased area on the surface of a plant organ (e.g., apple scab, potato scab, wheat scab).
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2. Scab
   A hyperplastic symptom characterised by rough, crusty lesions formed by excessive cork production. A disease in which such lesions form.
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3. scab
   [n] - someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike 2. [n] - the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion 3. [v] - take the place of work of someone on strike 4. [v] - form a scab
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4. scab
   a short piece of wood fixed to a wooden support; it serves as a support in joining Category: Various industries and crafts • the crust formed by the drying of the pus of an ulcer or a superficial sore Category: Medicine • a flake of mould material trapped within the metal sur...
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5. Scab
   Scab (skăb) noun [ Middle English scab , scabbe , shabbe ; confer Anglo-Saxon scæb , sceabb , scebb , Dan. & Swedish skab , and also Latin scabies , from scabere to scratch, akin t...
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6. Scab
   Scab intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Scabbed ; present participle & verbal noun Scabbing .] To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
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7. Scab
   Scab noun (Botany) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
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8. scab
   1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part. ... 2. The itch in man; also, the scurvy. ... 3. The mange, especially. When it appears on sheep. ... 4. A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a min...
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9. scab
   noun the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
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10. scab
    strikebreaker noun someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
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11. scab
    (skab) the crust of a superficial sore. to become covered with a crust or scab.
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12. Scab
    • (n.) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots. • (n.) A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman ...
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13. scab
    in botany, any of several bacterial or fungal diseases of plants characterized by crustaceous lesions on fruit, tuber, leaf, or stem. The term is ... [2 related articles]
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14. scab
    in pathology, secondary skin lesion composed of dried serum, blood, or pus. See wound.[1 related articles]
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15. scab
    scab A crust that forms over a surface denuded of epithelium, made up of clotted plasma and blood cells.
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16. scab
    Type: Term Pronunciation: skab Definitions: 1. A crust formed by coagulation of blood, pus, serum, or a combination of these, on the surface of an ulcer, erosion, or other type of wound.
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17. Scab
    Scab is slang for a person who breaks a work strike, a blackleg.
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18. Scab
    Scab can refer to the following: ==Animal and plant diseases== ==Geology== ==Immunology== ==Music== ...
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19. Scab
    Scab is slang for a person who breaks a work strike, a blackleg.
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