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.
An ox, to early American farmers who used the beast, was a mature castrated male belonging to the domestic cattle family, or genus Bos, most likely trained (like draft horses, some never got trained) to work, and at the end of its life inevitably used for meat.