Meaning

(intransitive) To heal improperly..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To heal improperly.
2. (rare, trannsitive) To provide the incorrect treatment to someone one is attempting to heal.

Example Sentences

Such decision of the court entitled the plaintiff to temporary total disability benefits, because of the deformity, residual edema (accumulation of fluid), hip pain, swelling in the lower leg, phlebitis (inflammation of a vein), and knock-knees, all resulting from the mishealing of the plaintiff's femur fracure.

It's a loss that occurred when his wife's injuries from the accident healed or mishealed in such а manner as to now cause her to be unable to have sex without pain.

Her hand ached and she looked down to see an ugly scar stretching across the ball of her thumb. It was already old and long since mishealed.

For example, Skeleton L at the site of Dunstable was an adult male who earlier in his life had suffered a fracture of his left leg, which mishealed, subsequently shortening his leg significantly, which would have left him with a limp and noticeable deformity

Some “famous doctors" referred patients to him that they could not heal or those they had mishealed.

Akras touched her scarred cheeks, tracing the hard ridges of deliberately mishealed flesh.

Word Forms

• misheals
• mishealing
• mishealed

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