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Definition of Lacerations
1. laceration [n] - See also: laceration
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacerations
Literary usage of Lacerations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutic Gazette (1907)
"The passage of the fetus through the parturient canal may produce lacerations of
the cervix, of the vault of the vagina, the anterior, lateral, or posterior ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1890)
"For example, of 103 lacerations Liebman's ' results were as follows ... Credo in
1000 deliveries, in the Leipsic clinic, had 392 lacerations, 39.2 per cent. ..."
3. Treatise on the Diseases of Women: For the Use of Students and Practitioners by Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene (1897)
"Extensive multiple lacerations. Lacerations of the an- tero-posterior walls,
while they are said ... Multiple lacerations vary greatly in number and extent. ..."
4. A Manual of midwifery by Alfred Lewis Galabin (1897)
"For it appears that, in general, if careful vaginal irrigation is employed, anil
all sepsis avoided, fair healing of the lacerations takes place ..."
5. Obstetrics; a Manual for Students and Practitioners by David James Evans (1900)
"Lacerations: While waiting for the placenta to be delivered many physicians place
the nurse in charge of the fundus while they utilize this time to examine ..."
6. The Principles and Practice of Gynaecology by Thomas Addis Emmet (1880)
"Lacerations through the neck of the uterus are of more frequent ... Lacerations in
the median line are the most frequent, and those of the anterior lip are ..."
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