lesion

See also: lésion and lesión

English

Alternative forms

• læsion (archaic)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin laesiō (“injury”), itself from laesus, perfect passive participle of laedō (“I injure, hurt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːʒən/
• 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 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

• hemilesion
• lesional
• lesionless
• lesionlike
• microlesion
• nonlesion
• Olney's lesions
• photolesion
• postlesion
• prelesion
• radiolesion
• translesion

 

Related terms

• lese majesty, lèse majesté

Translations

a wound or an injury

• Catalan: lesió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 病灶 (zh) (bìngzào)

• Danish: læsion c
• Dutch: laesie (nl) f
• Esperanto: lezo
• Finnish: vamma (fi)
• French: lésion (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Verletzung (de) f, Läsion (de) f
• Indonesian: lesi (id)
• Italian: lesione (it) f
• 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: lesi (id)
• Italian: lesione (it)
• Portuguese: lesão (pt) 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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.

Translations

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

• Catalan: lesionar (ca)
• Dutch: kwetsen (nl), verwonden (nl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: blesser (fr)

Anagrams

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

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Interlingua

Noun

lesion (plural lesiones)

1. lesion, injury

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Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laesio.

Noun

lesion f (plural lesions)

1. harm; damage

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laesio.

Noun

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

1. harm; damage