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A hurt; an injury. Specifically:

The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.

A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.

several parts. -- Complicated fracture (Surg.), a fracture of the bone combined with the lesion of some artery, nervous trunk, or joint. -- Compound fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which there is an open wound from the surface down to the fracture. -- Simple fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the bone only is rup…

nal disease (Med.), a disease of which the symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; the derangement of an organ arising from a cause, often unknown, external to itself opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.

(Med.) The theory which attributes contagious and infectious diseases, suppurative lesions, etc., to the agency of germs. The science of bacteriology was developed after this theory had been established.

To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.

The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.

y muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.

neys; a disease characterized by pain in the region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the latter. Quain.

d seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion. Dunglison.

The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. Dunglison.

oid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.

the initial stage of syphilis, including the period from the development of the original lesion or chancre to the first manifestation of symptoms indicative of general constitutional infection. -- Primary union (Surg.), union without suppuration; union by the first intention.

Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.

tissues from a healthy part, and the insertion of them in another place where there is a lesion; as, the transplantation of tissues in autoplasty. 3. (Surg.)

y, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands. The virus, or contagion, of this fever is supposed…

An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity.