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Definition of Abrasions
1. abrasion [n] - See also: abrasion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abrasions
Literary usage of Abrasions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick: How to Keep Well and what to Do by William Gordon Stimpson, Milton Hugh Foster (1919)
"abrasions. abrasions are very superficial wounds in which the outer layers of
the skin have been ..."
2. The Practitioner's Ready Reference Book: A Handy Guide in Office and Bedside by Richard James Dunglison (1883)
"abrasions, Wounds, etc.—If blood from them be on the person, it should be so stated.
The size, exact position (measured), and nature of the wounds, etc., ..."
3. A Practical treatise on the diseases of women by John Thorburn (1885)
"Ulcérations and abrasions, Hypertrophy, and Lacerations of the Cervix Uteri. ...
or abrasions of the Cervix Uteri (Non-malignant). ..."
4. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1856)
"... TREATMENT—POST-MORTEM APPEARANCES—RIGIDITY AND SPASM IN THE DROWNED CHANGES
PRODUCED BY PUTREFACTION—SPECIAL COURSE OF, IN THE DROWNED—abrasions OF THE ..."
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