Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word LESION

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Definitions of LESION

1. (pathology) A wound or injury.
2. (medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.
3. (biochemistry) Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.
4. (law) Injury or an unfair imbalance in a commutative contract wherein the consideration is less than half of the market value, which then serves as a basis for the injured party to sue to rescind the agreement.
5. (transitive) To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

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Examples of Using LESION in a Sentence

• 'Central pontine' indicated the site of the lesion and 'myelinolysis' was used to emphasise that myelin was affected.
• Myelitis is classified to several categories depending on the area or the cause of the lesion; however, any inflammatory attack on the spinal cord is often referred to as transverse myelitis.
• Homicidal monomania: According to Étienne-Jean Georget, an abrupt "lesion of the will" capable of driving an otherwise sane person to murder.
• The syndrome may be related to a brain lesion and is often of a paranoid nature, with the delusional person believing themselves persecuted by the person they believe is in disguise.
• These cells are treated as cancer cells, as they are descended from a biopsy taken from a visible lesion on the cervix as part of Lacks's diagnosis of cancer.
• A myocardial lesion results from damage to the heart muscle, and a coronary lesion is a subtype that describes a lesion in the coronary arteries.
• Diagnosis is made by sampling (biopsy) of the lesion, followed by an imaging workup (called staging) which can include CT scan, MRI, PET scan to determine the local extension of the tumor, and if the disease has spread to distant parts of the body.
• Although Beckett attributes the lesion to a racquetball injury, it indicates Kaposi's sarcoma, an AIDS-defining condition.
• Physiologically the Rougon-Macquarts represent the slow succession of accidents pertaining to the nerves or the blood, which befall a race after the first organic lesion, and, according to environment, determine in each individual member of the race those feelings, desires and passions—briefly, all the natural and instinctive manifestations peculiar to humanity—whose outcome assumes the conventional name of virtue or vice.
• Anosognosia results from physiological damage to brain structures, typically to the parietal lobe or a diffuse lesion on the fronto-temporal-parietal area in the right hemisphere,.
• Steward also noted that Travis had a small lesion on the inside crease of his right elbow, consistent with intravenous drug use.
• Depending upon the size of the lesion, the emotional lability may be a sign of an acute condition, and not itself the cause of the fatality.
• achalasia, prinzmetal angina); stenosis is usually used when narrowing is caused by lesion that reduces the space of lumen (e.
• Heartburn and chronic acid reflux – this can lead to a precancerous lesion called Barrett's esophagus.
• The syndrome is said to be "alternating" because the lesion causes symptoms both contralaterally and ipsilaterally.
• Diagnosis is by biopsy and analysis of any skin lesion that has signs of being potentially cancerous.
• The LEEP technique results in some thermal artifact in all specimens obtained due to the use of electricity which simultaneously cuts and cauterizes the lesion, but this does not generally interfere with pathological interpretation provided depth is not exceeded.
• Aphasic people are still able to comprehend speech as the lesion does not disrupt the ventral stream pathway.
• The tendon palpation test, in which a lesion in a patient's lower motor neurons can be detected from the softness of their Achilles tendon when standing;.
• Nevus (: nevi) is a nonspecific medical term for a visible, circumscribed, chronic lesion of the skin or mucosa.

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