Word Finder - lesion

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A wound or injury.

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An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.

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Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.

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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.

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To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

Within the cortex of the right frontal lobe there was found a lesion.

Probably the most fatal pathophysiological lesion of these is the stasis induced in the the microvascular system by aggregated infected erythrocytes.

X-ray showed slight pulsation of the smooth round lesion above the left hilum.

When treating any herpes lesion, be sure to wash your hands thoroughly with warm soapy water and dry them before touching anything else.

A vesicular rash restricted to the distribution of a single sensory nerve is the classic skin lesion of shingles.

The lesion of the foot is invaded by bacteria causing it to go septic.

But the practitioner must be assured that neither valvular lesion nor degeneration of the myocardium is present.

We do get the occasional attack of orf, which results in a scabby lesion around the mouth of a lamb.

Collect samples by scraping the active edge of a skin lesion using the edge of a rounded scalpel blade or glass slide.

Make yourself a cup of tea and save the warm teabag, pressing it against the lesion for 20 minutes.

By using a substance like black salve to remove the skin cancer or lesion, you may be able to rid yourself of the lesion, but if the cancer has spread, you'll need additional treatment.

For this reason, aseptic technique must be followed strictly, and a lumbar puncture should never be performed at the site of a localized skin lesion.

If observation suggests a secondary infection, topical application of tetracycline to the lesion, three or four times daily, shortens healing to two to four days.

Spina bifida occurs during the first month of fetal development when a small bit of bone and skin fails to fully enclose the nerves of the spinal cord, leaving a hole or lesion.

The surgeon loosens and lifts the tissues of the spinal canal lesion and stitches them closed.

A difference in reflexes between the arms and legs usually indicates of a lesion involving the spinal cord.

Depressed reflexes in only one limb, while the other limb demonstrates a normal response usually indicates a peripheral nerve lesion.

Patients who have sensory abnormalities may have a lesion above the thalamus.

The primary lesion usually appears at the site where the bacteria entered the skin, most often on the arms, legs, or face.

Smaller lesions then form around the primary lesion.

Many flat, red, scaly, itchy lesions called pintids occur either near the primary lesion, or scattered around the body.

A scraping of a lesion will be examined under the microscope to look for Treponema bacteria.

Foot warts are called plantar warts because the word plantar is the medical term for the sole of the foot, the area where the wart usually appears as a single lesion or as a cluster.

The use of lasers, which vaporize the lesion, can theoretically transmit the HPV.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scans may be done to ensure that a lesion or bleeding is not responsible for the symptoms.

Infection may also occur during oral sex, such as transmission of HSV from an oral lesion to the genitals or vice versa, or transmission of HIV from genital secretions through a cut in the mouth.

These marks can appear to be a red rash or lesion.

The treatments include the use of high doses of steroids (either orally or injected into the lesion) to stop the growth.

Once in the skin, the allergen may produce a classic immune wheal and flare response (a skin lesion with a raised, white, compressible area surrounded by a red flare).

You may also have a beige or brown lesion on the chest or back that is flat.

Any lesion or mark that has irregular borders on it.

If you notice a mole or lesion on your body with surrounding color or swelling that spreads over time, this is another possible warning sign of skin cancer.

Some people may mistake a cancerous lesion for eczema or psoriasis because the appearance is similar.

When you get to a lesion above 4 cm, we like to do a magnetic resonance angiogram to assess the presence of aneurysms.

A total of seven animals died and a farmer developed cutaneous anthrax after a pre-existing lesion came into contact with infected animals ' blood.

In 17 cases (12 %) the dysplasia lesion recurred, in 11 (7.8 %) an infiltrating carcinoma arose.

For a lesion in the transverse colon it may be that an extended right hemicolectomy is safer option than a transverse colectomy is safer option than a transverse colectomy.

Glenoid rim Up to half the patients with glenohumeral instability have an osseous avulsion of the glenoid rim Up to half the patients with glenohumeral instability have an osseous avulsion of the glenoid rim, a bony Bankart lesion.

This rapidly growing, pedunculated lesion is a pyogenic granuloma.

During the second lactation, sire effects appeared to account for up to 36% of the variation in sole lesion scores.

A small chronic very localized inflammatory lesion was present in the liver.

What is a space-occupying lesion (in the brain) with cerebral edema?

The left upper lobe lesion and part of the right middle lobe lesion are shown.

At the site of a lesion, a nerve insulating material, called myelin, is lost.

This lesion is variously known a a seborrhoeic keratosis, basal cell papilloma or seborrhoeic wart.

The lesion displays heterogeneous texture with echogenicity similar to the normal renal parenchyma.

It involves making a lesion in the part of the brain called the thalamus.

A post mortem examination was held, which showed not only grave derangement in the stomach and other organs, but a serious lesion of the brain.

The common variety of bed-sore is the result of continuous pressure on and irritation of the skin, the vitality and resisting power of which are lowered by a lesion of the cord cutting off the trophic supply to the skin affected.

The sensation of pain is felt in the brain, and the cause of it may be in the sensory centres of the brain alone, as in cases of hysterical pain, with no lesion to cause it.