Definition of wound

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Wound (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc..

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Puncture :: Puncture (n.) A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin..
Recency :: Recency (n.) The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc..
Ichor :: Ichor (n.) A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc..
Hydra :: Hydra (n.) A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster..
Incarnate :: Incarnate (v. i.) To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound..
Ambulance :: Ambulance (n.) An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital..
Issue :: Issue (n.) The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house..
Quill :: Quill (n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle..
Gastroraphy :: Gastroraphy (n.) The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen.
Harrow :: Harrow (n.) To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex..
Detergent :: Detergent (n.) A substance which cleanses the skin, as water or soap; a medicine to cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc..
Contusion :: Contusion (n.) A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound..
Flea-bite :: Flea-bite (n.) A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea..
Tent :: Tent (n.) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges..
Rounding :: Rounding (n.) Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service..
Tent :: Tent (v. t.) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively..
Cage :: Cage (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
Plaster :: Plaster (v. t.) To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore..
Heal :: Heal (v. t.) To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.
Surgery :: Surgery (n.) The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment..
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