An assessment of the wound should be done weekly and be used to drive treatment decisions. Wound assessment includes: location, class/stage, size, base tissues, exudates, odor, edge/perimeter, pain and an evaluation for infection.
Confidence votes 267. Oxtail is the tail of cattle. It used to only refer to the tail of an ox (aka a castrated male) but now it refers to the tail cattle in general. 17 people found this useful.
The idiom is Strong as an ox. An ox is a large beast of burden that was preferred over horses for the wagon-based settlement of the American West before the railroad. The settlers needed heft to pull the wagons and oxen retain their strength with a diet of ordinary grasses, without supplements of oats or other grains.