"laceration" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /læsəˈɹeɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-laceration.wav Forms: lacerations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} laceration (countable and uncountable, plural lacerations)
  1. An irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Injuries Translations (an irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue): разкъсна рана (razkǎsna rana) [feminine] (Bulgarian), laceració [feminine] (Catalan), 劃破 (Chinese Mandarin), 划破 (huápò) (Chinese Mandarin), lacerace [feminine] (Czech), repeämä (Finnish), repeämähaava (Finnish), lacération [feminine] (French), laceración [feminine] (Galician), Platzwunde [feminine] (German), विदार (vidār) (Hindi), विदीर्णन (vidīrṇan) (Hindi), विदारण (vidāraṇ) (Hindi), lacerazione (Italian), rana szarpana [feminine] (Polish), laceração [feminine] (Portuguese), разры́в (razrýv) [masculine] (Russian), рва́ная ра́на (rvánaja rána) [feminine] (Russian), razderotina [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), laceración [feminine] (Spanish), krossår [neuter] (Swedish), розі́рвання (rozírvannja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), рва́на ра́на (rvána rána) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-laceration-en-noun-gFfMzZCb Disambiguation of Injuries: 62 38 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 70 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 77 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of 'an irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue': 96 4
  2. The act of lacerating or tearing. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-laceration-en-noun-AdI6g-Zd
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: lacerate

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.