sursanure
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French sursaneüre, from a contraction of Latin sursum sānātum (“upwardly healed”).
Noun
sursanure (plural sursanures)
- A scab, or wound which has superficially healed over.
- Late C14, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
- And wel ye knowe that of a sursanure / In surgerye is perilous the cure
- Late C14, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales