issue pea

English

Noun

issue pea (plural issue peas)

  1. (medicine, archaic) A pea, or similar round body, used to provoke irritation in a wound, in order to promote secretion and the discharge of pus.
    Apart from peas, young unripe fruit of the orange tree was previously used as an issue pea

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