lesion

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Excision of the lesion was achieved via a transzygomatic-transtemporal approach to the parapharyngeal space.

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  1. noun A wound or injury.
  2. noun A localized pathological change in a bodily organ or tissue.
  3. noun An infected or diseased patch of skin.
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  • An ultrasound scan is usually the method of choice to rule out an obstructive lesion, which is the more serious of the two possibilities.
  • Excision of the lesion was achieved via a transzygomatic-transtemporal approach to the parapharyngeal space. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • When someone has a satellite lesion, the Stage IIA standard predictions are not the same as someone with simply a Stage IIA lesion (I believe that's what they gave him?) without the satellite lesion. —  AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
  • But the question of the propriety and expediency of treatment is dependent upon certain specific points of collateral consideration 1) The nature of the lesion is a point of paramount importance. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Then we find new variations if his "lesion"--as all kinds of local nervous defects are called--is in the brain centre in the Rolandic region, where arise the memories of the movements required. —  The Story of the Mind
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  1. Middle English lesioun, from Old French lesion, from Latin laesiō, laesiōn-, from laesus, past participle of laedere, to injure.

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  1. from French lésion = Spanish lesion = Portuguese lesão = Italian lesione, from Latin læsio(n-), an injury, from lædere, past participle læsus, hurt. Cf. collide, elide, illide, allision, collision, clision, illision.
 

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