laceration

See also: lacération

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /læsəˈɹeɪʃən/
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

laceration (countable and uncountable, plural lacerations)

  1. An irregular open wound to soft tissue.
    The doctor sewed up the laceration in his arm.
    • 2023 October 18, “Network News: Carmont: NR pays nearly £1m in out-of-court settlements”, in RAIL, number 994, page 15:
      Survivors of the crash suffered injuries ranging from broken bones to lacerations, permanent disfigurements, and psychiatric trauma.
  2. The act of lacerating or tearing, either literally or figuratively.
    • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 8:
      Why the founders of St. Merryn's Hospital chose to erect their institution at a main-road crossing upon a valuable office site, and thus expose their patients' nerves to constant laceration, is a foible that I never properly understood.

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