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

References

• “issue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.