Meaning

4 senses

  1. A wound or injury.

    Verletzung, Läsion, enorme Verletzung

    ра́наrána, поврежде́ниеpovreždénije, теле́сное поврежде́ниеtelésnoje povreždénije

  2. An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.

    Läsion

  3. Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.

  4. Injury or an unfair imbalance in a commutative contract wherein the consideration is less than half of the market value, which then serves as a basis for the injured party to sue to rescind the agreement.

More definitions
  • any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part
  • an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)

Examples

8 sentences

  1. His skin lesions are caused by leprosy.

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  2. Edmundo was covered in sores and lesions.

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  3. Tom suffers from a skin lesion on his back.

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  4. If you develop lesions in the area, I think you should see a doctor.

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  5. After the accident, he suffered a lesion of the spinal cord causing partial paralysis.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a wound or an injury:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
a wound or an injury:
injury or loss arising from an uneven contractual exchange:

Origin

From Middle English lesioun (“physical injuring of the body”), from Old French lesion (“hu

From Middle English lesioun (“physical injuring of the body”), from Old French lesion (“hurt, offense, wrong, injury, wound”), from Latin laesiō (“hurt, harm, injury”) (whence -ion (“noun suffix denoting action, result, process, state, condition”)), from laesus (“hurt, injured, wounded, damaged”), past participle of laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”).

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Forms

plural: lesions
Singularlesion
Plurallesions

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin):wound

Word family

24 related words
RelatedcollideC2allideallisioncollisionelideelision
Derivedcryolesionhemilesionimmunolesioninterlesionipsilesionallesionallesionectomylesionlesslesionlikemicrolesionmultilesionnonlesionphotolesionpostlesionprelesionpseudolesionradiolesiontranslesion

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
leprosylesbianlessA2

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