What does LESION mean?

Definitions for LESION
ˈli ʒənle·sion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lesionnoun

    any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part

  2. wound, lesionnoun

    an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)

Wiktionary

  1. lesionnoun

    A wound or injury.

  2. lesionnoun

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

  3. lesionverb

    To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

Wikipedia

  1. Lesion

    A lesion is any damage or abnormal change in the tissue of an organism, usually caused by disease or trauma. Lesion is derived from the Latin laesio "injury". Lesions may occur in plants as well as animals.

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  1. lesion

    A lesion is an abnormality or damage in the tissue of an organism (like skin or an organ) caused by disease, injury, or trauma. It can refer to both structural and functional changes in the body and is generally used in a broad sense to refer to any type of tissue damage or abnormality, visible on the body's surface or internally on imaging like X-rays or MRI.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lesionnoun

    a hurt; an injury

  2. Lesionnoun

    loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract

  3. Lesionnoun

    any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs

  4. Etymology: [F. lsion, L. laesio, fr. laedere, laesum, to hurt, injure.]

Wikidata

  1. Lesion

    A lesion is any abnormality in the tissue of an organism, usually caused by disease or trauma. Lesion is derived from the Latin word laesio meaning injury.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Lesion

    lē′zhun, n. a hurt: (med.) an injury or wound. [Fr.,—L. læsion-emlædĕre, læsum, to hurt.]

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Anagrams for LESION »

  1. insole

  2. oleins

  3. selion

  4. leonis

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of LESION in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of LESION in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of LESION in a Sentence

  1. Miguel Nicolelis:

    What we didn't expect and what we observed is that some of these patients regained voluntary control of muscles in the legs below the level of the lesion and regained sensitivity below the level of the spinal cord injury.

  2. Rubens Belfort Jr.:

    Because the lesion is at the portion of the optic nerve that is inside the eye.

  3. Steven Frucht:

    When you look at the areas of the brain that are inappropriately activating, they're not just one region, this is actually a widely distributed motor network disorder. It's not like there's a lesion in a three-millimeter location, and we could just take care of that.

  4. Club America:

    Dos Santos underwent a medical evaluation where it was determined Dos Santos suffered an injury to Dos Santos right quadriceps, a bone lesion has been ruled out.

  5. Henry Paulson:

    Aphasia really means problems with language, and that can vary from having trouble finding your words to understanding what people say. It can occur because of a tumor on the brain, a stroke or from a progressive neurodegenerative condition, because his diagnosis is frontotemporal dementia, Mr. Willis clearly has a progressive, neurodegenerative disease as opposed to a stroke or a tumor or some other lesion on the brain.

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