What is "laceration"

Usage examples of "laceration".

Even the injuries he had suffered in Amicus, from the laceration on his forehead to the wolf bite on his arm, were almost completely healed.

Lacerations of the urethra from urethral coitus in instances of vaginal atresia or imperforate hymen may also excite serious hemorrhage.

Contusions and lacerations are often attended with worse phaenomena, and with more fatal consequences, than fractures.

The X rays and MRI reveal seven broken ribs on my right side, five separate breaks to the left ankle, four breaks to the right shoulder, a torn right rotator cuff, a torn anterior cruciate ligament in the right knee, frostbite, malnutrition, and deep lacerations over my entire body.

Celsus instructs that in extracting arrow-heads the entrance-wound should be dilated, the barb of the arrow-head crushed by strong pliers, or protected between the edges of a split reed, and thus withdrawn without laceration of the soft parts.

There was at first a grave emphysematous condition due to the laceration of several broken ribs.

When this debris was pulled out of the way, Jeremiah Freel was exposed, slumped against the steering wheel with a big laceration across his forehead, blood streaming out and dripping off the horn button into his lap.

Nothing serious - lacerations of the gastrocnemius and the tibialis anticus muscles.

The injuries were listed more specifically on the emergency room report, and Adam had to reach back into his own college physiology class to remember what all the words meant--open fracture of the left clavicle, fracture of the right olecranon process, anterior dislocation of right shoulder, fracture of ribs eight through ten left side, lacerated liver and spleen, ruptured bladder, crushed metacarpals on right hand, broken nose, laceration of scalp, face, and neck, crushed right ankle.

The great omentum was mangled and comminuted, and bore two lacerations of two inches each.

Ribs splintered, which probably caused the pneumothorax and liver laceration.

He had been thrown from the car and lay upon the pavement, a massive, well-muscled individual with a bubbly pneumothorax, heavy arterial bleeding, numerous lesser lacerations, a possibly broken back, and fractured skull.

Gaping lacerations, severed limbsthey barely slowed the hostiles down as they emerged from the thick bushes to harass the party.

Then he gathered up all the emergency wound packs he could find, along with plaster-of-Paris material for making splints, emergency surgery kits for small wounds and lacerations, an abdominal-surgery kit, six vials of tetanus toxoid as a booster for macerating puncture wounds.

Through-and-through laceration from both mouth corners across masseter muscles, extending through temporal mandibula joints upward to both earlobes.