(medicine) A superficial structure of dead tissue, usually hardened, commonly, but not necessarily dark, adhering to underlying living or necrotic tissue, caused by gangrene or a burn

plural of eschar

Covered with eschar.

Capable of producing an eschar

A caustic or corrosive material

plural of escharotic

Obsolete form of escharotic.

Obsolete form of escharotic.

(zoology) Like, or pertaining to, the former genus Eschara or family Escharidae, almost all now in phylum Bryozoa, principally in suborder Flustrina.

plural of escharotomy