ε3242Ἐσχάρα
sacrificial hearth, eschar
Lycurgus and Ammonius say that an eschar is the name for the [altar] which has no height but is set into the ground, or hollow. By analogy doctors call shallow wounds in the body eschars.
Ἐσχάρα· ἐσχάραν φησὶ καλεῖσθαι Λυκοῦργος καὶ Ἀμμώνιος τὴν μὴ ἔχουσαν ὕψος, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ γῆς ἱδρυμένην, ἢ κοίλην. παρ' ὃ καὶ τοὺς ἰατροὺς τὰ ἐν σώματι κοῖλα ἕλκη ἐσχάρας καλοῦσιν.