Where does proud collide?

In veterinary medicine, proud flesh is exuberant granulation tissue: wound-healing tissue that overgrows above the level of the surrounding skin, most often on the lower limbs of horses, where it stalls closure by keeping the skin edges from migrating across the wound. The raised mass usually has to be trimmed back before healing can proceed. Bertone's Management of exuberant granulation tissue sets out its causes and treatment. The referent is pathological over-granulation that stands proud of the wound, named for the same raised-above-a-surface meaning that woodworkers and emotion researchers use for entirely different things.[1]

Unit

Height of granulation tissue above the skin surface

Recovery means

Resolves once the excess tissue is removed and epithelium can cover the wound

Measured by

Assessed clinically by how far granulation tissue protrudes above the wound margin

In psychology, being proud names pride, a self-conscious emotion felt when a person takes credit for a valued achievement or quality, carrying a recognisable nonverbal display: expanded posture, head tilted up, arms raised or set on the hips. Tracy and Robins' Show your pride presented evidence that this expression is a discrete, cross-culturally recognised emotion signal. The referent is an emotion and its display, tied to status and self-evaluation, and it is a different construct from a horse's overgrown wound tissue or a joint sitting slightly high.[2]

Unit

Rated intensity of the pride emotion and its nonverbal display

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Measured by recognition of the pride display and by self-report of the emotion