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10 words match “LACERATION”

LACERATION n. 2 definitions
The act of lacerating.
DELACERATION n.
A tearing in pieces. [Obs.] Bailey.
DILACERATION n.
The act of rending asunder. Arbuthnot.
BRUISE v.
To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.
DILANIATION n.
A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration. [R.]
DISRUPTION n.
rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.
LANCINATION n.
A tearing; laceration. "Lancinations of the spirit." Jer. Taylor.
RIP n.
A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
SOLUTION n.
of connection, or of connected substances or parts; -- applied, in surgery, to a facture, laceration, or the like. "As in the natural body a wound, or solution of continuity, is worse than a corrupt humor, so in the spiritual." Bacon. -- Standardized solution (Chem.), a solution which is used as a reagent, and is of a…
TRACHELORRHAPHY n.
The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.