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laceration

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laceration [‚las·ə′rā·shən]
(medicine)
A wound made by tearing.
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They shrink by an ungovernable instinct, as they would shrink from laceration.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
Releasing my hold upon the ivy, I dropped the re-maining distance to the ground, saved from laceration only because the lion's paw struck the thick stem of ivy.
The Lost Continent by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
I am to re-open wounds that Time has barely closed; I am to recall the most intensely painful remembrances--and this done, I am to feel myself compensated by a new laceration, in the shape of Mr.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
 
 
 
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