nonhealing

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ healing.

Adjective

nonhealing (not comparable)

1. That does not heal.
   • 2009 March 10, Jane E. Brody, “Oxygen Therapy Is Valuable, Sometimes”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.