lesion

See also: lésion and lesión

English

Alternative forms

• læsion (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English lesioun, from Old French lesion, from Latin laesiō (“injury”), itself from laesus, perfect passive participle of laedō (“I injure, hurt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːʒən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːʒən

Noun

lesion (plural lesions)

1. (pathology) A wound or injury.
2. (medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.
3. (biochemistry) Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.
4. (law) Injury or an unfair imbalance in a commutative contract wherein the consideration is less than half of the market value, which then serves as a basis for the injured party to sue to rescind the agreement.

Derived terms

• hemilesion
• indolent lesion of epithelial origin
• lesional
• lesionectomy
• lesionless
• lesionlike
• microlesion
• nonlesion
• Olney's lesions
• photolesion
• postlesion
• prelesion
• radiolesion
• translesion

Related terms

• lese majesty, lèse majesté

Translations

a wound or an injury

• Bulgarian: поражение (bg) n (poraženie)
• Catalan: lesió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 病灶 (zh) (bìngzào), 損傷 / 损伤 (zh) (sǔnshāng)

• Czech: léze f, zranění (cs) n
• Danish: læsion c
• Dutch: laesie (nl) f
• Esperanto: lezo
• Finnish: vamma (fi)
• French: lésion (fr) f
• Galician: lesión (gl) f
• German: Verletzung (de) f, Läsion (de) f
• Indonesian: lesi (id)
• Italian: lesione (it) f
• Occitan: lesion (oc) f
• Polish: uszkodzenie ciała n
• Portuguese: lesão (pt) f
• Romanian: leziune (ro) f
• Russian: ра́на (ru) f (rána), поврежде́ние (ru) n (povreždénije), (legal) теле́сное поврежде́ние n (telésnoje povreždénije)
• Spanish: lesión (es)
• Swedish: lesion (sv) c
• Turkish: lezyon (tr), yaralanma (tr)

an infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part

• Catalan: lesió (ca) f
• Czech: léze f
• Dutch: laesie (nl) f
• Esperanto: lezo
• French: lésion (fr) f
• German: Läsion (de) f
• Indonesian: lesi (id)
• Italian: lesione (it)
• Polish: lezja f
• Portuguese: lesão (pt) f
• Romanian: rană (ro) f
• Slovak: lézia f
• Spanish: lesión (es)

injury or loss arising from an uneven contractual exchange

• Dutch: benadeling (nl) f
• French: lésion (fr) f
• German: enorme Verletzung f, Übervorteilung f
• Italian: lesione (it) f
• Portuguese: lesão enorme f
• Spanish: lesión enorme f, lesión enormísima f

Verb

lesion (third-person singular simple present lesions, present participle lesioning, simple past and past participle lesioned)

1. (transitive) To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

Translations

to wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure

• Catalan: lesionar (ca)
• Dutch: kwetsen (nl), verwonden (nl)
• French: blesser (fr)

Anagrams

• enoils, elison, oleins, esloin, insole, onlies, Elison, eloins, selion

Interlingua

Noun

lesion (plural lesiones)

1. lesion, injury

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laesio.

Noun

lesion f (plural lesions)

1. harm; damage

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laesio.

Noun

lesion oblique singular, f (oblique plural lesions, nominative singular lesion, nominative plural lesions)

1. harm; damage