But whenever raw flesh appears on them, they will be unclean. The exception to the fully-covered clean declaration: the appearance of raw flesh within the otherwise-white covering makes the person unclean again. The raw flesh is the sign of active disease — of the condition being still in the defiling phase rather than the resolved phase. The white covering that indicated a clean state is negated by the raw flesh that indicates active disease. The dynamic between the stable white and the active raw communicates the diagnostic principles underlying the entire skin disease examination system.

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