slow healing
Gradual wound closure
Slow healing describes wounds, injuries, or conditions that take longer than expected to recover.
The phrase often appears in medical contexts where certain factors—age, diabetes, poor circulation—impede the body's natural repair process: The doctor warned that diabetics are prone to slow healing.
It can extend figuratively to emotional or social recovery: The community's slow healing after the tragedy.
- open woundUnhealed break in skin
- woundCoiled, or an injury
- deep cutObscure album track
- scarPermanent mark from healing
- scar tissueCollagen replacing damaged skin
scab · infection · chronic · chronic pain · festering · lingering · bruise · tissue · skin graft · recovery · patience · inflammation · bandage · stitches · tender · raw · painful · gradual
- diabetestype 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, blood sugar, insulin pump, insulin resistance
- hypermobility disordershypermobility, double-jointed, double jointed, loose joints, bendy
- agingaging process, aging body, biological age, aging workforce, aging parents
- obstaclesbarriers, block, obstacles, barrier, blockers
- smoking harmslung cancer, emphysema, COPD, smoker's cough, nicotine addiction
- deficiency symptomsscurvy, beriberi, pellagra, anemia, goiter