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Definitions: Lesion |
LesionNoun1. Any visible abnormal structural change in a bodily part. 2. Any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lesion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | A localised and delineated diseased area. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | An area of abnormal tissue change. (references) |
Medicine | Lesion:a pathological disturbance, such as an injury, an infection, a tumour; injury:1)hurt done to or damage suffered by the body;2)a wound of any kind; trauma:injury. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Not all lesions require treatment.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lesion."
Synonym: LesionSynonym: wound (n). (additional references) |
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 | The patient is a 53 year old woman with metastatic melanoma to multiple subcutaneous sites and retroperitoneum. She was treated with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) transduced with the gene for tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Pretreatment biopsy shows multiple live melanoma cells with little lymphoid infiltrate. Following treatment with TNF gene modified TILs plus interleukin-2, a biopsy of another lesion showed massive coagulative necrosis of the tumor with no viable tumor seen. This is a typical picture seen in experimental animals treated with tumor necrosis factor. This patient has had a substantial objective response that is currently ongoing at nine months following initiation of treatment.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Kaposi's sarcoma like lesion in athymic mouse - nude mouse. This lesion was induced by metabolically active cells 4x10(6) injected subcutaneously. Arrow indicated positive result. Left side was injected with fixed cells.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | This 50 year old female had been a carder in a wool factory for 6 years. This lesion is on the 8th day of the illness. Cutaneous anthrax usually occurs after skin contact with contaminated meat, wool, hides, or leather from infected animals.Credit: CDC. |  | Closeup of man's chest showing skin lesion of meningococcemia.Credit: CDC. |
 | Smear from foot lesion of blastomycosis showing Blastomyces dermatitidis yeast cell undergoing broad-base budding.Credit: CDC. |  | Nodular skin lesions of blastomycosis, one of which is a bullous lesion on top of a nodule. Aspiration of the bulla revealed yeast forms of Blastomyces dermatitidis.Credit: CDC. |
 | Tongue lesion of paracoccidioidomycosis.Credit: CDC. |  | Herpes simplex lesion of lower lip, second day after onset. HSV, cold sore.Credit: CDC. |
 | This mature, 20 mos. old pinta lesion shows signs of hyperkeratosis, parakeratosis, acanthosis, elongation of Rete Pegs and an inflammatory infiltrate in the dermis. The genus Treponema, contains the species pallidum, the cause of syphilis.Credit: CDC. |  | A small atypical darkfield-positive chancre of the glans. A chancre is a primary skin lesion of syphilis which begins at the site of infection after an interval of 10-30 days as a papule or red ulcerated skin lesion.Credit: CDC. |
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Health | As the cysticerci die, the lesion will shrink. (references) | |
Local cleansing of the lesion and local application of antibiotics. (references) | ||
The damaging effects of a hemorrhage are related to lesion location. (references) | ||
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| "Lesion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.98% of the time. "Lesion" is used about 293 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.98% | 290 | 17,096 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.02% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 293 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "lesion": phylloxera lesion ♦ squamous intraepithelial lesion ♦ tuberculous lesion. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "lesion": lesion-induced, lesion-making. | |
Ending with "lesion": root-lesion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lesion | 65 | high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion | 8 |
slap lesion | 55 | genital lesion | 7 |
squamous intraepithelial lesion | 28 | breast lesion | 7 |
brain lesion | 23 | lesion tongue | 7 |
lesion liver | 23 | intraepithelial lesion | 7 |
low grade squamous intraepithelial lesion | 22 | de deportistas en en lesion mecanismo rodilla | 6 |
lesion medular | 20 | cellular lesion | 6 |
lesion lytic | 18 | herpes lesion | 6 |
lesion precancer | 17 | lesion picture | 6 |
bankart lesion | 16 | penile lesion | 5 |
lesion skin | 13 | generator lesion rf | 5 |
bone lesion | 12 | biopsy guidelines lesion skin | 5 |
vaginal lesion | 11 | cerebral lesion | 5 |
hill lesion sachs | 9 | hypoechoic lesion | 4 |
cervical lesion | 9 | bankhart lesion | 4 |
cystic lesion | 9 | brain lesion stem | 4 |
kidney lesion | 8 | cell lesion spindle | 4 |
cord lesion spinal | 8 | lesion medular rehabilitacion | 4 |
lesion picture skin | 8 | lesion spinal | 4 |
lesion lung | 8 | cerebellum lesion | 4 |
definition lesion | 4 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "lesion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lëndim (displeasure, grieved, hurt, touchiness, umbrage, wound), plagë (blight, burn, gash, hurt, slash, sore, sword cut, wound), dëmtim (damnification, defacement, defect, deterioration, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, failure, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, Mar, wound), dëm (damage, Dent, detriment, disadvantage, harm, impairment, injury, insalubrity, maleficence, mischief, mischievousness, noxiousness, prejudice, scathe, violence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضرر (damage, detriment, devilry, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, mal, malignancy, mis, prejudice, wrong), جرح (break, cut, flesh wound, gash, hurt, incision, injure, injury, lacerate, laceration, maim, make mischief, maul, pierce, shoot, slash, stab, sting, wing, wound, wounding), أذى (disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour, hardship, harm, hurst, injury, injustice, insult, mayhem, trauma, violence, wickedness, zenana), آفة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | накърняване (derogation, detraction, impairment, invasion), поражение (backdown, baffle, beating, defeat, failure, injury, knockout, overturn, repulse, reverse, smash, walloping, whipping), повреда (breakdown, conk, damage, defect, failure, fault, flaw, hurt, injury, mischief, scathe, trouble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 损害. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | léze, porucha (breakdown, bug, defect, derangement, disorder, failure, fault), poškození (corruption, damage, disservice, harm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | laesion, læsion (impairment), læsion, saar (injury, trauma, wound), biologisk skade. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | letsel (bodily injury, harm, trauma), lesie, ziek deel, wond (injury, trauma, wound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | غبن(ghabn), زیان حاصله دراثرعدم اجرای عقدی , خسارت (Damage, Detriment, Harm, Loss, Recompense, Scathe), جراحت (Lymph, Sore, Stricture, Wound), اسیب (Damage, Harm, Hurt, Inconvenience, Injury, Mar, Strain, Tort, Trauma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vioittuma (injury), vamma (accident, handicap, injury, trauma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lésion. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wunde (injury, scar, sore, wound), verletzung (breach, harm, hurt, hurting, infraction, infringement, injuring, injury, intrusion, laceration, offending, transgression, trauma, violation, wound, wounding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάκωση (infestation, injury, trauma), αλλοίωση (corruption, deterioration, distortion, spoilage), οργανική βλάβη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'ע (blow, evil, leprosy, pestilence, plague, punishment, scurf, stroke, trouble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | seb (breach, gash, scarring, smart, sore, wound), sértés (abuse, affront, aggrievement, flout, humiliation, injury, insult, offence, offense, wound), sérelem (damnification, detriment, gravamen, grievance, harm, injury, mortification, offence, prejudice, tort, wrong), sérülés (batter, bruise, casualty, damage, hurt, injury, trauma, traumata, traumatism), megkárosítás (wrong), károsodás (impairment), horzsolás (abrasion, bruise, chafe, chafing, excoriation, frayed skin, galling, graze, scratch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lesione (bruise, bruising, crack, damage, hurt, injury, overreaching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 병변. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhott (gash, injury, trauma, wound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | lesjon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esionlay lesão (injury, trauma, wound). (various references) leziune (injury, wound). (various references) повреждение (damage, fault, impairment, injury, labefaction, mischief, trauma). (various references) lezija, ozleda (injury, wound). (various references) lesión (hurt, injury, wound). (various references) organskada. (various references) การบา"เจ็บ. (various references) yara (bruise, canker, cut, hurt, injury, raw, scotch, sore, trauma, ulcer, wound), doku bozulması, bere (balmoral, barret, beanie, beret, bruise, contusion, flesh wound, hurt, skullcap, Tammy, tam-o'-shanter, wound). (various references) збиток (bad, loss, sacrifice, wastage), пошкодження (damage, disturbance, hurt, impairment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lesion": lesioned, lesions. (additional references) | |
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"Lesion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: besoin, desion, labion, laision, laison, lasion, leasion, leason, lechon, Leesen, legson, leipoa, leision, leison, lesbion, lesbon, lesen, Leshana, lesio, lesional, Leson, Lesponne, lession, lexion, Licino, lieson, lision, Liskov, Lizzio, lusion, Luzio, Olesiak, resion, Tleson. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lesion" (pronounced lē"zhun) |
| 4 | -ē" zh u n | cohesion. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, allusion, aspersion, aversion, circumcision, collision, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, conversion, corrosion, decision, delusion, derision, diffusion, disillusion, dispersion, diversion, division, envision, equation, erosion, evasion, excision, exclusion, excursion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, immersion, implosion, incision, inclusion, incursion, indecision, infusion, intrusion, invasion, inversion, misprision, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, perversion, precision, preclusion, profusion, provision, recision, rescission, reversion, revision, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, supervision, television, transfusion, version, vision. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: eloins, insole, oleins. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: eloin, enols, eosin, lenis, lenos, liens, lines, linos, lions, loins, noels, noils, noise, olein, solei. | |
-2 letters: enol, eons, ions, isle, leis, leno, lens, lien, lies, line, lino, lins, lion, loin, lone, lose, nils, noel, noes, noil, nose, oils, oles, ones, silo, sine, sloe, soil, sole, soli, sone. | |
-3 letters: els, ens, eon, ins, ion. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: anisole, cineols, elision, eloigns, elusion, entoils, epsilon, inclose, indoles, insoles, isoline, legions, lesions, lingoes, lioness, lionise, lomeins, longies, loonies, nerolis, niellos, olefins, oleines, pinoles, sonlike. | |
+2 letters: ailerons, alienors, alnicoes, anisoles, binocles, bonspiel, bowlines, cholines, cineoles, colonies, colonise, delusion, eclosion, eidolons, elations, elisions, eloiners, elusions, elutions, emulsion, epsilons, evulsion, felonies, flexions, foilsmen, gasoline, helicons, hellions, holiness, holstein, hotlines, inclosed, incloser, incloses, insolate, insolent, insouled, involves, isocline, isolines, kaolines, laminose, lections, lemonish, lesioned, lewisson, lexicons, licensor, ligneous, lionised, lioniser, lionises, lionizes, lobefins, loginess, longwise, looniest, loriners, misenrol, moleskin, neoliths, nonlives, noselike, novelise, novelist, nubilose, oiliness, oilstone, oinomels, olefines, olivines, opalines, outlines, pinholes, pinocles, potlines, prolines, resoling, retinols, semolina, sidelong, silicone, siloxane, simoleon, sinkhole, snowlike, solanine, solenoid, songlike, telsonic, toenails, toplines, towlines, unsoiled, violones. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 73 69 6F 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . ... .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0073 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)467185758180 |
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