lesion

See also: lésion and lesión

English

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lesion

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• læsion (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English lesioun, from Old French lesion, from Latin laesiō (“injury”), itself from laesus, perfect passive participle of laedō (“I injure, hurt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːʒən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːʒən

Noun

lesion (plural lesions)

1. (pathology) A wound or injury.
2. (medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.
3. (biochemistry) Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.
4. (law) 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.

Derived terms

• cryolesion
• hemilesion
• immunolesion
• indolent lesion of epithelial origin
• interlesion
• ipsilesional
• lesional
• lesionectomy
• lesionless
• lesionlike
• microlesion
• multilesion
• nonlesion
• Olney's lesions
• perilesion
• photolesion
• postlesion
• prelesion
• pseudolesion
• radiolesion
• translesion

Related terms

• lese majesty, lèse majesté

Translations

a wound or an injury

Bulgarian: поражение (bg) n (poraženie) Catalan: lesió (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 病灶 (zh) (bìngzào), 損傷 / 损伤 (zh) (sǔnshāng) Czech: léze f, zranění (cs) n Danish: læsion c Dutch: laesie (nl) f Esperanto: lezo Finnish: vamma (fi) French: lésion (fr) f Galician: lesión (gl) f German: Verletzung (de) f, Läsion (de) f Indonesian: lesi (id) Italian: lesione (it) f Occitan: lesion (oc) f Polish: uszkodzenie ciała n Portuguese: lesão (pt) f Romanian: leziune (ro) f Russian: ра́на (ru) f (rána), поврежде́ние (ru) n (povreždénije), (legal) теле́сное поврежде́ние n (telésnoje povreždénije) Spanish: lesión (es) Swedish: lesion (sv) c Turkish: lezyon (tr), yaralanma (tr)

an infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part

Catalan: lesió (ca) f Czech: léze f Dutch: laesie (nl) f Esperanto: lezo French: lésion (fr) f German: Läsion (de) f Indonesian: lesi (id) Italian: lesione (it) Polish: lezja f Portuguese: lesão (pt) f Romanian: rană (ro) f Slovak: lézia f Spanish: lesión (es)

injury or loss arising from an uneven contractual exchange

Dutch: benadeling (nl) f French: lésion (fr) f German: enorme Verletzung f, Übervorteilung f Italian: lesione (it) f Portuguese: lesão enorme f Spanish: lesión enorme f, lesión enormísima f

Verb

lesion (third-person singular simple present lesions, present participle lesioning, simple past and past participle lesioned)

1. (transitive) To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

Derived terms

• microlesioned
• nonlesioned
• unlesioned

Translations

to wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure

Catalan: lesionar (ca) Dutch: kwetsen (nl), verwonden (nl) French: blesser (fr)

Anagrams

• enoils, elison, oleins, esloin, insole, onlies, Elison, eloins, selion

Interlingua

Noun

lesion (plural lesiones)

1. lesion, injury

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laesio.

Noun

lesion f (plural lesions)

1. harm; damage

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laesio.

Noun

lesion oblique singular, f (oblique plural lesions, nominative singular lesion, nominative plural lesions)

1. harm; damage