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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Woundy :: Woundy (a.) Excessive.
Incise :: Incise (v. t.) To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut off..
Worm :: Worm (n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still..
Probe :: Probe (v. t.) To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe..
Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound..
Bleeder :: Bleeder (n.) One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.
Tent :: Tent (n.) A probe for searching a wound.
Retractor :: Retractor (n.) An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during amputation.
Woundwort :: Woundwort (n.) Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys..
Wound :: Wound (imp. & p. p.) of Win.
Casualty :: Casualty (n.) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion..
''swounds :: Swound (v. & n.) See Swoon, v. & n..
Injure :: Injure (v. t.) To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind..
Heal :: Heal (v. i.) To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over..
Orifice :: Orifice (n.) A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound..
Hematophilia :: Hematophilia (n.) A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds.
Coil :: Coil (n.) A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound..
Sanies :: Sanies (n.) A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds..
Consolidate :: Consolidate (v. t.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound..
Arquebusade :: Arquebusade (n.) A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds..
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