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▪ I. lesion|ˈliːʒən|
Also 6 Sc. lessioun, 9 læsion.
[ad. F. lésion, ad. L. læsiōn-em, n. of action f. lædĕre to hurt.]
1. Damage, injury; a hurt or flaw, whether material or immaterial.
1452Dk. York in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. I. 11 What..lesion of honour, & villany is said & reported generally unto the English nation. c1460G. Ashby Dicta Philos. 659 Yf ye finde any spotte, fylth, or lesion In any personne or in creature, Dishonnour hym not with derision. 1858Times 5 Oct., Looking for faults, for lesions, for bubbles in the gutta-percha. 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 89 If the hand after being dipped [in boiling water] shew any sign of lesion, the offence is proven. 1875Blackmore A. Lorraine I. xxvi. 292 Nay, nay, Struan, be not thus hurt by imaginary lesions.
2. Damage or detriment to one's property or rights. Now only in legal use; chiefly in Civil and Scots Law, applied to such injury involved in a contract as may be pleaded as a ground for setting it aside.
1582–8Hist. Jas. VI (1804) 161 Sum men of his..distroyed all his coirnes and housses, to his great enorme lessioun. 1839W. O. Manning Law Nations v. vii. (1875) 352 The contingency of lesion to the rights of those who are not parties to the contest. 1875Poste Gaius i. (ed. 2) 152 The first condition is a Laesion by the operation of civil law, i.e. a disadvantageous change in civil rights or obligations brought about by some omission or disposition of the person who claims relief.
3. Path. Any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs.
1747tr. Astruc's Fevers 301 The physician should..examine the lesions of the different functions of these organs. 1808Med. Jrnl. XIX. 441 Affected with tetanic symptoms, from the læsion of a nerve. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 185 A lesion called anthracosis of the lungs.
fig.1835Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 532 The lesion of moral and religious principle in the delinquent himself. 1873H. Rogers Orig. Bible ii. 98 That great moral lesion of man's nature with which the Bible deals.
▪ II. lesion, v. Chiefly Med. and Zool.|ˈliːʒən|
[f. lesion n.]
trans. To cause a lesion in (an animal, organ, etc.). Usu. in pass. Also fig.
1926J. Devanny Butcher Shop xxiii. 280 How could she blame that dear mother, who had married young herself, and had been fortunate enough to meet no other man to lesion the content of her domestic life? 1961Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. CCI. 426/2 In the final group of animals lesioned in the pallido-hypothalamic tract immediately dorsal to the fornix columns..there developed a sudden hyperphagic tendency 2 days later. 1973New Scientist 15 Mar. 604/1 He recalled that he had lesioned in cats the ‘brake’ that prevents them from moving while they dream. 1974Nature 13 Dec. 587/2 There was no significant difference between rats lesioned with 6-OH-dopamine and those lesioned with 5,6-HT. 1987Ann. Neurol. XXII. 735 In some of the monkeys the BNM [sc. basal nucleus of Meynert] was lesioned only partly with some surrounding tissue affected as well.
So ˈlesioned ppl. a., ˈlesioning vbl. n.
1961Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. CCI. 424/1 No evidence of adipsic or aphagic ‘escape’..was seen in any of the far-laterally lesioned animals. Ibid. 428/2 These findings indicate a complex organization of the hypothalamic ‘feeding center’, with ‘motivational’ and ‘metabolic’ elements running in separate circuits.., and thus dissociable by lesioning and stimulation methods. 1966Jap. Jrnl. Pharmacol. XVI. 276 (title) Effects of some centrally acting drugs on food intake of normal and hypothalamus-lesioned rats. 1972Sci. Amer. Dec. 75/3 They found that immediately after a unilateral lesion had been made the animals were completely unable to follow objects in the visual field contralateral to the lesioned colliculus. 1987Jrnl. Exper. Biol. CXXXII. 59 Glial regeneration in insect central nervous connectives, following selective chemical lesioning, involves both exogenous and endogenous elements. 1991M. Amis Time's Arrow iii. 100 In the mouth the buccal mucosa are lesioned, the oropharynx inflamed. 1991M. Benedikt Cyberspace (1993) i. 23 With mature cyberspaces and virtual reality technology, this kind of warpage, tunneling, and lesioning of the fabric of reality will become a perceptual, phenomenal fact at hundreds of thousands of locations. |