sursanure

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French sursaneüre, from a contraction of Latin sursum sānātum (“upwardly healed”).

Noun

sursanure (plural sursanures)

1. 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