laceration

See also: lacération

English

Pronunciation

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

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.

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), 划破 (zh) (huápò)

• Czech: lacerace (cs) f
• Finnish: repeämä (fi)
• French: lacération (fr) f
• Galician: laceración (gl) f
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• German: Platzwunde (de) f
• 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

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