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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : las-uh-rey-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌlæs əˈreɪ ʃən |
Definition of laceration
Origin :- 1590s, from Middle French lacération, from Latin lacerationem (nominative laceratio), noun of action from past participle stem of lacerare (see lacerate).
- noun cut, wound
- His brain was numbed and he was blinded by the blood from the laceration over his eyes.
- Extract from : « Spring Street » by James H. Richardson
- Now that he knows it, the knowledge afflicts him, to the laceration of his heart.
- Extract from : « The Flag of Distress » by Mayne Reid
- Ah, dear, dear, we shall have laceration unless we reduce this before we move you.
- Extract from : « The Doctor's Red Lamp » by Various
- If they will part it must be with bitterness and laceration.
- Extract from : « We Can't Have Everything » by Rupert Hughes
- Oh, you all, by the tears that drop from your eyes, by the laceration of your bodies—you will be avenged!
- Extract from : « The Poniard's Hilt » by Eugne Sue
- The effort is idle, and ends only in the laceration of his skin.
- Extract from : « The Fatal Cord » by Mayne Reid
- There are no sharp edges about Him, no thrusting points, no instruments of laceration.
- Extract from : « New Tabernacle Sermons » by Thomas De Witt Talmage
- They shrink by an ungovernable instinct, as they would shrink from laceration.
- Extract from : « Adam Bede » by George Eliot
- The windowpanes showed great ragged holes, which explained the laceration of Shagarach's hands.
- Extract from : « The Incendiary » by W. A. (William Augustine) Leahy
- They even seem to have known of accidents such as we now discuss in connection with the laceration of the middle meningeal artery.
- Extract from : « Old-Time Makers of Medicine » by James J. Walsh
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