proud flesh

1. 1.

   the swollen tissue around a healing wound or ulcer

   Broadergranulation

Questions about proud flesh

What does proud flesh mean?

proud flesh means "the swollen tissue around a healing wound or ulcer".

Is proud flesh a common word?

proud flesh is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.