LACERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laceration mean? 

• LACERATION (noun)
  The noun LACERATION has 2 senses:

1. a torn ragged wound

2. the act of lacerating

  Familiarity information: LACERATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LACERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A torn ragged wound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("laceration" is a kind of...):

lesion; wound (an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin))

Derivation:

lacerate (cut or tear irregularly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of lacerating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("laceration" is a kind of...):

tear (the act of tearing)

Derivation:

lacerate (cut or tear irregularly)

lacerate (deeply hurt the feelings of; distress)

 Context examples 

Laceration or tearing of the walls of the heart, of the interatrial or interventricular septum, of the papillary muscles or chordae tendineae, or of any of the valves of the heart.

(Cardiac Rupture, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

With the exception of several bad wounds, the rest were merely severe bruises and lacerations.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Blast causes pulmonary concussion and hemorrhage, laceration of other thoracic and abdominal viscera, ruptured ear drums, and minor effects in the central nevous system.

(Blast Injury, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The most common injury diagnoses included laceration, contusion, and internal organ injury, Android Authority reported.

(Mobile phone could cause physical pain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

My love, said Mr. Micawber, much affected, you will forgive, and our old and tried friend Copperfield will, I am sure, forgive, the momentary laceration of a wounded spirit, made sensitive by a recent collision with the Minion of Power—in other words, with a ribald Turncock attached to the water-works—and will pity, not condemn, its excesses.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)