单词 | laceration |
释义 | lacerationn. The action of lacerating someone or something, esp. a part of the body; an instance or result of this; a wound produced in this way. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > laceration > action of laceration1598 mangling1807 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 5/2 Throughe laceratione of some vayne or arterye. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 344 The orifice..doth..inlarge it selfe without feare of laceration or tearing. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 372 Forbearing all lacerations..and woundings of one another. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. v. 88 The nitrous..exhalations..force out their way, not only with the breaking of the cloud, but the laceration of the ayre about it. View more context for this quotation 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 126 Lacerations are never cured without coming to Digestion. 1783 P. Pott Chirurg. Wks. (new ed.) II. 26 The difference between dilatation and laceration of the peritoneum. 1840 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Heath's Bk. Beauty 54 The scars and lacerations on your arms. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. v. §32. 115 No mental revolution can be accomplished without more or less of laceration. 1908 Practitioner Jan. 40 The laceration of the urethra by foreign bodies. 1956 ‘I. English’ Every Eye 18 Yet small lacerations heal quickly when one is only fourteen years old. 1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Nov. 72/5 Lacerations to academic egos are severe in these astringent novels of manners. 2004 B. Duncan Wee Bk. of Calvin p. xviii North-East aphorisms seemed particularly appropriate, as their essential characteristics are a stinging tone of merciless laceration combined with pared-to-the-bone linguistic terseness. 2005 Independent 9 July 7/3 He used his medical training from a previous career as a part-time fireman two years ago to apply surgical masks on the badly burnt and treat glass wounds, flash burns and lacerations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598 |
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