Definition of Carrel-Dakin treatment
: an antiseptic treatment of wounds in World War I consisting of regular intermittent irrigation through surgically placed rubber tubes to obviate infection in contaminated wounds and to hasten asepsis in suppurating wounds — compare carrel-dakin solution , dakin's solution
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