laceration

See also: lacération

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læsəˈɹeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

  • Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

laceration (countable and uncountable, plural lacerations)

1. An irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue.

   The doctor sewed up the laceration in his arm.

   • 2023 October 18, “Network News: Carmont: NR pays nearly £1m in out-of-court settlements”, in RAIL, number 994, page 15:

     Survivors of the crash suffered injuries ranging from broken bones to lacerations, permanent disfigurements, and psychiatric trauma.

2. The act of lacerating or tearing.

Related terms

• lacerate

Translations

an irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue

• Bulgarian: разкъсна рана f (razkǎsna rana)
• Catalan: laceració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 劃破／划破 (zh) (huápò)

• Czech: lacerace (cs) f
• Finnish: repeämä (fi), repeämähaava
• French: lacération (fr) f
• Galician: laceración (gl) f
• German: Platzwunde (de) f
• Hindi: विदार (hi) (vidār), विदीर्णन (vidīrṇan), विदारण (hi) (vidāraṇ)
• Italian: lacerazione (it)
• Polish: rana szarpana f
• Portuguese: laceração f
• Russian: разры́в (ru) m (razrýv), рва́ная ра́на f (rvánaja rána)
• Serbo-Croatian: razderotina f
• Spanish: laceración f
• Swedish: krossår n
• Ukrainian: розі́рвання n (rozírvannja), рва́на ра́на f (rvána rána)

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