Asklemmy

Fun fact: it's also a medical term referring to a specific type of injury / trauma! One of my instructors said she was caring for an ICU patient who had been clinging to life so long that their body was basically just disintegrating and she accidentally degloved their hand while trying to reposition them. Like she picked up the patients' arm and the arm just slipped out of its skin. She panicked and tried to put it back and her preceptor (she was a new grad) stopped her because that's just kinda not how that works like even if they were gonna somehow put it back on they'd probably be calling a surgeon but if the patient is so sick it's just slipping off it's almost definitely not reattachable. Another instructor had a similar story of trying to turn a patient on their side and her hand just going through the patients thigh which she described disintegrating in her hand in a similar manner so apparently it's not even all that uncommon when medical science has kept your body alive past its expiration date.