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lesion - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various pathological or traumatic changes in a bodily organ or tissue, including tumors, ulcers, sores, and wounds.
- transitive verb To cause a lesion to form on or in.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hurting; hurt; wound; injury.
- noun In civil law, the loss or injury suffered in a commutative contract by the party who does not receive an equivalent for what he gives.
- noun In pathology, any morbid change in the structure of organs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Civil Law) Loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract.
- noun (Med.) Any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
wound orinjury . - noun medicine An
infected or otherwise injured ordiseased organ or part, especially such patch ofskin . - verb transitive To wound or
injure , especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
- noun any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English lesioun, from Old French lesion, from Latin laesiō, laesiōn-, from laesus, past participle of laedere, to injure.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin laesiō ("injury"), itself from laesus, perfect passive participle of laedō ("I injure, hurt").
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Examples
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Kennedy did not rely on foreign law principles to definitively interpret a constitutional provision, as for example, Justice Marshall did in Eastern Airlines to interpret the term lesion corporelle.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Sotomayor, Graham, and International Law 2010
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The word lesion, from the Latin for “injury,” is used very generally by physicians.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The word lesion, from the Latin for “injury,” is used very generally by physicians.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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I had a minor skin lesion removed by a plastic surgeon in Guadalajara at a cost of about $100.
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I had a minor skin lesion removed by a plastic surgeon in Guadalajara at a cost of about $100.
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I had a minor skin lesion removed by a plastic surgeon in Guadalajara at a cost of about $100.
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I had a minor skin lesion removed by a plastic surgeon in Guadalajara at a cost of about $100.
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I had a minor skin lesion removed by a plastic surgeon in Guadalajara at a cost of about $100.
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If a lesion is suspected, more detailed imaging should be performed using a CT or MRI scan and the patient should be promptly referred to a pediatric oncologist for further management.
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I had a minor skin lesion removed by a plastic surgeon in Guadalajara at a cost of about $100.
Related Words
synonyms (120)
Words with the same meaning
- abrasion
- abscess
- ache
- aching
- aposteme
- bed sore
- blain
- bleb
- blemish
- blister
- blow
- boil
- break
- bubo
- bulla
- bunion
- burn
- canker
- canker sore
- carbuncle
- chafe
- chancre
- chancroid
- check
- chilblain
- chip
- cold sore
- concussion
- crack
- crackle
- cramp
- craze
- cut
- distress
- dolor
- eschar
- felon
- fester
- festering
- fever blister
- fistula
- flash burn
- fracture
- fray
- frazzle
- furuncle
- furunculus
- gall
- gash
- gathering
- grief
- gumboil
- hard
- hemorrhoids
- hurt
- incision
- injury
- kibe
- laceration
- mortal wound
- mutilation
- nasty blow
- pain
- pang
- papula
- papule
- paronychia
- parulis
- passion
- petechia
- piles
- pimple
- pock
- polyp
- puncture
- pustule
- rent
- rip
- rising
- run
- rupture
- scab
- scald
- scorch
- scrape
- scratch
- scuff
- second-degree burn
- shock
- slash
- soft chancre
- sore
- sore spot
- spasm
- stab
- stab wound
- stigma
- stress
- stress of life
- stroke
- sty
- suffering
- suppuration
- swelling
- tear
- tender spot
- third-degree burn
- throes
- trauma
- tubercle
- ulcer
- ulceration
- wale
- welt
- wheal
- whelk
- whitlow
- wound
- wounds immedicable
- wrench
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