laceration

See also: lacération

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

laceration (countable and uncountable, plural lacerations)

An irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue.
The doctor sewed up the laceration in his arm.
The act of lacerating or tearing.

Related terms

lacerate

Translations

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

Catalan: laceració f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 劃破 (zh), 划破 (zh) (huápò)
Czech: lacerace (cs) f
Finnish: repeämä (fi)
French: lacération (fr) f
Galician: laceración (gl) f

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

Anagrams

creational, reactional

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