nonhealing

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adjective

That does not heal.

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Meanings

adjectivenonhealing (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThat does not heal.

    The list includes decompression sickness (“the bends”), necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease), carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene, the bone infection osteomyelitis, nonhealing wounds and delayed radiation injury to bone and soft tissue.

    2009 March 10, Jane E. Brody, “Oxygen Therapy Is Valuable, Sometimes”, in New York Times

Origin

From non- + healing.

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APA

nonhealing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonhealing

MLA

“nonhealing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonhealing. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonhealing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonhealing.

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