Definition of wound

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Wound (n.) 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..

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Sting :: Sting (v. t.) To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands..
Salve :: Salve (n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
Quill :: Quill (n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle..
Cicatrizant :: Cicatrizant (n.) A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix..
Laceration :: Laceration (n.) A breach or wound made by lacerating.
Shooting :: Shooting (n.) A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting..
Heck :: Heck (n.) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine..
Wound :: Wound (n.) 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..
Sourt :: Sourt (n.) A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of water from a tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of blood from a wound; a jet; a spirt..
Stylet :: Stylet (n.) An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum..
Vulnifical :: Vulnifical (a.) Causing wounds; inflicting wounds; wounding.
Rase :: Rase (n.) A slight wound; a scratch.
Bandage :: Bandage (n.) A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc..
Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension..
Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound..
Gastroraphy :: Gastroraphy (n.) The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen.
Fester :: Fester (n.) To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers..
Drainage :: Drainage (n.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc..
Dissecting :: Dissecting (a.) Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound..
Convolute :: Convolute (a.) Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation..
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