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(n)
(pathology) A wound or injury.
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(adj)
In the form of coils; having coils.
Damage to the body of a living thing.
(v)
(transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
(transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
(transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
Having a scar or scars.
A scar; a mark.
A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation; the scar resulting from such a cut.
The process where the cells in the body regenerate and repair themselves.
(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
A deep cut.
(anatomy) The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
(intransitive) To produce an air current.
(often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
(informal) A level or degree.
A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
(pathology) Poisoning caused by the toxin from Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic bacterium that grows in improperly prepared food.
To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
Encased in a wrapping.
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
(heading, physical) To strike.
(figurative) A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
Physical injury; hurt; damage.
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
Angry, annoyed, bothered or worked up.
(countable) The act of discharging a firearm.
A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
(physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
(transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
(sometimes derogatory, colloquial) An effeminate boy or man.
A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
The early part of the day, especially from midnight to noon.
Amusing; humorous; comical.
Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.
Intending to harm; malevolent.
A perceived threat or danger.
Not available for operation, participation, interaction, etc.
In possession of land.
uttered with a trill
Suffering from an injury
(military, slang, dated) Acronym of herrings in tomato sauce.
An irregular open wound to soft tissue.
The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
(ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
A slashing action or motion:
(specifically) A hole in a vehicle's tyre, causing the tyre to deflate.
(medicine, countable) Synonym of bruise.
To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
A surname from German.
(literary) Welfare, prosperity.
(transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
A small cut in a surface.
That does not heal.
A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
Strips of cloth or other material used to create a bandage.
The area surrounding a wound
The removal of necrotic tissue or foreign matter from a wound, etc.
That cannot be healed.
(medicine, pathology) Of a disease or medical condition, causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.
Not healed.
(transitive) To remove necrotic tissue or foreign matter from (a wound or the like).
Not having been bandaged; without a dressing.
Wearing or covered in a bandage or bandages
(transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
(intransitive) To form or discharge pus.
The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
The act of making a gash, or cut.
(transitive, also figurative) To sew up or join by means of a suture.
(roleplaying games, countable) A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
That has suffered contusion; that has been contused.
Having lacerations, literally or figuratively.
(palynology, of a pollen grain) Having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.
surgical joining of two surfaces
Of or relating to an ulcer
(biology) The process that covers a wound with epithelial tissue.
freed from illness or injury
(medicine) The decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself.
(pathology) A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.