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Definition of Laceration
1. Noun. A torn ragged wound.
2. Noun. The act of lacerating.
Definition of Laceration
1. n. The act of lacerating.
Definition of Laceration
1. Noun. An irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Laceration
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Laceration
1. 1. The act of tearing. 2. A torn, ragged, mangled wound. Origin: L. Laceratio This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laceration
Literary usage of Laceration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1892)
"A laceration of the perineum had taken place, which was closed by one deep suture.
... An instance of direct laceration into the rectum, occurring at labor, ..."
2. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Stanley P. L. Leong (1922)
"She sustained a complete laceration of the perineum at the first delivery, ...
The perineum shows a complete laceration; the uterus is large, retroverted, ..."
3. Treatise on the Diseases of Women: For the Use of Students and Practitioners by Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene (1897)
"Incomplete bilateral laceration. Causation. — laceration of the cervix is usually
caused by parturition, either natural or instrumental. ..."
4. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1908)
"bone; for more commonly, however, the seat of laceration is directly opposite,
the point of application of violence us indicated by а lacerated scalp wound, ..."
5. The Principles and practice of gynecology: For Students and Practitioners by Emilius Clark Dudley (1904)
"PUERPERAL laceration OF THE CERVIX UTERI. Vague allusions to the subject had
appeared from time to time before the publication of Emmet's papers, ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases, Injuries and Malformations of the by Samuel David Gross (1876)
"laceration, or rupture, of the urethra is produced hy two varieties of causes,
... laceration of this canal has occasionally taken place under a violent ..."
7. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1876)
"A NOT infrequent accident is laceration of the eyelids. ... I was called to the
case within an hour, and found a laceration beginning on the nasal side of ..."
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