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A medical word for a tear in the skin or flesh — not a neat slice like a surgeon's cut, but a ragged rip, as from glass, a fall, a tool, or a bite. Doctors, nurses, and first-aid writing use it. Ordinary people more often say “a bad cut” or “it's torn.” Though actually, in a hospital laceration, incision, and abrasion are not the same: a laceration is the torn kind; an incision is a clean cut; an abrasion is a . The word feels formal because it belongs to that medical world.
撕裂傷
組成From the verb lacerate (to tear the flesh) + -ion (the act or the result).
同家族的字
- laceratethe verb: to tear flesh
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lacerationnoun/læsəˈɹeɪʃən/
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An irregular open wound to soft tissue.
- The doctor sewed up the laceration in his arm.
- Survivors of the crash suffered injuries ranging from broken bones to lacerations, permanent disfigurements, and psychiatric trauma.
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The act of lacerating or tearing, either literally or figuratively.
- Why the founders of St. Merryn's Hospital chose to erect their institution at a main-road crossing upon a valuable office site, and thus expose their patients' nerves to constant laceration, is a foible that I never properly understood.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。