lacerated
Americanadjective
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mangled; jagged; torn.
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pained; wounded; tortured.
lacerated sensibilities.
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Botany, Zoology. having the edge variously cut as if torn into irregular segments, as a leaf.
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Origin of lacerated
Explanation
If skin is lacerated, it's deeply cut or badly torn. After falling hard on your skateboard, you can tell your knees are lacerated by the blood seeping through your jeans. Doctors use the word lacerated to describe particularly jagged wounds or cuts. If your skin is lacerated, it needs to be disinfected and possibly even stitched up. If you have a painful mishap on your unicycle, you're more likely to call your injury a "cut" or "wound," but when you go to the emergency room, they'll describe your arm as lacerated. The Latin root means "tear to pieces" or "mangle."
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Lacerated or torn, when the tissues are torn or ragged.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
Lacerated and contused wounds may be described together although there is, of course, this difference, that in contused wounds there is no break or laceration of the skin.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
Lacerated or torn wounds.—There is not so much bleeding in these cases as in clean cuts, because the blood-vessels are torn across in a zigzag manner, and not divided straight across.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
Lacerated and contused wounds are made by a tearing or bruising instrument, for example, catching the finger on a nail.
From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.
Lacerated wounds combine the characters of incised and contused wounds.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )
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