Object

• skin: The sloughed skin of a female, found near Church Norton, measured some 26 inches in length.

• tissue: The local pain becomes intense with the wound sloughing tissue often down to the bone.

• online: Slough History Online Find out about the history of Slough by visiting Slough History Online - a web site run by Slough Library Service.

• wound: Larval Therapy This can be a useful treatment, especially for sloughing open wounds, which are infected with MRSA.

Adjective modifier

• moist: Moist slough is visually repugnant and malodorous, and provides an ideal culture medium for bacteria.

• soft: Unfortunately, however, within ten days, soft yellow slough was once again accumulating in the previously granulating wound.

• wet: There was greater variation in choice of dressings for wet slough compared to dry slough.

• yellow: Unfortunately, however, within ten days, soft yellow slough was once again accumulating in the previously granulating wound.

Modifying Another Word

• away: The tumor became necrotic after 6 days and after 10 days the dead tissue sloughed away.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: Which begs the question: who now bears the " overall " responsibility which the Bank has sloughed off?

• away: For it is only the conquering Spirit sloughing away its human habitation for a better Life.

Followed by a transitive particle

• away: Dry body brushing, with a mitt, brush, or loofah, helps to slough away the dead skin cells that build up.

Used with why or when

• that: My favorite spot was on small opening in the middle of a mile long cattail slough that ran along a flooded creek bed.

Particle object: off_obj

• cell: Renowned for increasing cell turnover, Vitamin A helps to slough off dead skin cells to reveal glowing, youthful looking skin.

• coil: Dino Valenti sloughed off this mortal coil on November 16th 1994, aged fifty-seven.

• skin: In order to grow, reptiles slough off old skin in a process called " shedding.

Preposition: of

• despond: Many people here are in the " slough of despond " .

• despondency: Or fall into a slough of despondency from which I can't reach the keyboard.

• ignorance: I am surprised you do not want to lift yourself out of this slough of religious ignorance and whimsy.

• cell: By the way does anyone know if sloughing of cells is restricted to the Hydrozoa or do the other 2 classes also do this?