le·sion

(lē′zhən)

Any of various pathological or traumatic changes in a bodily organ or tissue, including tumors, ulcers, sores, and wounds.

tr.v. le·sioned, le·sion·ing, le·sions

To cause a lesion to form on or in.

[Middle English lesioun, from Old French lesion, from Latin laesiō, laesiōn-, from laesus, past participle of laedere, to injure.]

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lesion

(ˈliːʒən)

1. (Pathology) any structural change in a bodily part resulting from injury or disease

2. (Pathology) an injury or wound

[C15: via Old French from Late Latin laesiō injury, from Latin laedere to hurt]

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le•sion

(ˈli ʒən)
n.

1. an injury; hurt; wound.

2. any localized, usu. well-defined area of diseased or injured tissue or of abnormal structural change.

v.t.

3. to cause a lesion or lesions in.

[1425–75; < Middle French < Latin laesiō injury = Latin laed(ere) to injure + -tiō -tion]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	lesion - any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part pathology - any deviation from a healthy or normal condition tubercle - a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis ulceration - a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue
	2.	lesion - an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) wound harm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. raw wound - a wound that exposes subcutaneous tissue stigmata - marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ excoriation, scratch, scrape - an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off gash, slash, slice, cut - a wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut" bite - a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person

lesion

noun injury, hurt, wound, bruise, trauma (Pathology), sore, impairment, abrasion, contusion skin lesions

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Translations

léze

vamma

kwetsuur letsel verwondingwonde

lesion

[ˈliːʒən] N → lesión f

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lesion

[ˈliːʒ^ən] n → lésion f

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lesion

n → Verletzung f; (= structural change) → krankhafte Gewebsveränderung; lesions in the brain → Gehirnverletzungen pl

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lesion

[ˈliːʒ/ən] n (Med) → lesione f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

le·sion

n. lesión, herida, contusión;

degenerative ___ → ___ degenerativa;

depressive ___ → ___ depresiva;

diffuse ___ → ___ difusa;

functional ___ → ___ funcional;

gross ___ → ___ grosera;

peripheral ___ → ___ periférica;

precancerous ___ → ___ precancerosa;

systemic ___ → ___ sistemática;

toxic ___ → ___ tóxica;

traumatic ___ → ___ traumática;

vascular ___ → ___ vascular;

whiplash ___ → ___ de latigazo.

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lesion

n lesión f

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Turnbull was sent for; but when he heard what had passed, he said this complete restoration, though only temporary, was a hopeful sign, proving that there was no permanent lesion to prevent ultimate recovery.

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No doubt physiology, especially the disturbances of memory through lesions in the brain, affords grounds for this hypothesis; nevertheless it does remain a hypothesis, the validity of which will be discussed at the end of this lecture.

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But this return to the upper strata was not so sudden as to cause relief from the pressure too rapidly, which might have produced serious disorder in our organisation, and brought on internal lesions, so fatal to divers.

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There may have been lesions of the brain itself, the effect of which can never be removed.

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"Are you not the author of a monograph upon obscure nervous lesions?" I asked.

After I had graduated I continued to devote myself to research, occupying a minor position in King's College Hospital, and I was fortunate enough to excite considerable interest by my research into the pathology of catalepsy, and finally to win the Bruce Pinkerton prize and medal by the monograph on nervous lesions to which your friend has just alluded.

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One can distinguish on its ruins three sorts of lesions, all three of which cut into it at different depths; first, time, which has insensibly notched its surface here and there, and gnawed it everywhere; next, political and religious revolution, which, blind and wrathful by nature, have flung themselves tumultuously upon it, torn its rich garment of carving and sculpture, burst its rose windows, broken its necklace of arabesques and tiny figures, torn out its statues, sometimes because of their mitres, sometimes because of their crowns; lastly, fashions, even more grotesque and foolish, which, since the anarchical and splendid deviations of the Renaissance, have followed each other in the necessary decadence of architecture.

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They found that, regardless of the treatment they were receiving, 56 percent of the patients had at least one rimmed lesion. Further analysis showed that 44 percent of patients had only rimless lesions; 34 percent had one to three rimmed lesions and 22 percent had four or more rimmed lesions.

NIH - Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe MS

Forty-two of 86 patients had 45 contrast enhancing lesions. The remaining 44 patients did not show any enhancing lesion on the standard prone DCE-MRI; consequently, the supine examination of these patients was not evaluated.

Supplementary abbreviated supine breast MRI following a standard prone breast MRI with single contrast administration: is it effective in detecting the initial contrast-enhancing lesions?

Patients with [greater than or equal to]12 years and above age having white lesion in oral cavity for the duration [greater than or equal to]14 days and a$?6 months were a part of this study.

AGREEMENT IN CLINICAL AND HISTOPATHOLOGY DIAGNOSIS OF ORAL WHITE LESIONS

The current widespread methods use techniques with radioactive material (Radio-guided occult lesion localization (ROLL)), metallic suture, activated charcoal or dyes, such as patent blue, methylene blue and indocyanine green.

Use of the Patent Blue and Air in the Preoperative Marking of Impalpable Breast Lesions

In children, the lesion is small, multiple, and found in the inferior fornix.

A CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL STUDY TO ANALYSE THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTOPATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION IN DIAGNOSIS OF EXCISED CONJUNCTIVAL LESIONS