lesion
Syllables: le·sion/ˈliːʒən/
lesion noun: a wound or injury.
Noun
lesion (plural lesions)
- A wound or injury.
- An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.
- Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.
- Injury or an unfair imbalance in a commutative contract wherein the consideration is less than half of the market value, which then serves as a basis for the injured party to sue to rescind the agreement.
Verb
lesion (third-person singular simple present lesions, present participle lesioning, simple past and past participle lesioned)
- To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.
lesion meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Indonesian
lesion in Tamil
- உறுப்புக் கோளாறு, நோய் பாதிப்பால் திசு மாற்றம், நைவுப்புண், அழிவு, உருக்குலைவு, சிதைவு
lesion in Malayalam
- injury, wound, bruise
- ക്ഷതം, അടി, പീഡ, വ്രണം, മുറിവ്, പുണ്ണ്
lesion in Kannada
- ಗಾಯ, ಅಂಗಹಾನಿ, ಗಾಸಿ, ನಷ್ಟ, ಹಾನಿ, ಕೆಡುಕು
lesion in Indonesian
- a wound or an injury
- lesi
- an infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part
- lesi
Examples of lesion in a sentence
- A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.
- The MRI scan showed a brain lesion in the parietooccipital area.
- A diagnostic workup with endoscopy found punched-out lesions in the stomach.
Forms of lesion
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lesions |
| alternative form (archaic) | læsion |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lesions |
| present participle | lesioning |
| past participle | lesioned |
| past | lesioned |
Origin of lesion
From Middle English lesioun (“physical injuring of the body”), from Old French lesion (“hurt, offense, wrong, injury, wound”), from Latin laesiō (“hurt, harm, injury”) (whence -ion (“noun suffix denoting action, result, process, state, condition”)), from laesus (“hurt, injured, wounded, damaged”), past participle of laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”).
Words formed from lesion
- microlesioned
- nonlesioned
- unlesioned
- cryolesion
- hemilesion
- immunolesion
- indolent lesion of epithelial origin
- interlesion
- ipsilesional
- lesional
- lesionectomy
- lesionless
- lesionlike
- microlesion
- multilesion
- nonlesion
- Olney's lesions
- perilesion
- photolesion
- postlesion
- prelesion
- pseudolesion
- radiolesion
- translesion
Words that rhyme with lesion
Questions about lesion
- What does lesion mean?
- Lesion means a wound or injury.
- What is lesion in Tamil?
- Lesion in Tamil is உறுப்புக் கோளாறு, நோய் பாதிப்பால் திசு மாற்றம், நைவுப்புண். See Lesion meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is lesion?
- Lesion can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce lesion?
- Lesion is pronounced /ˈliːʒən/.
- What is the plural of lesion?
- The plural of lesion is lesions.
Words near lesion in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lesion (page history and authors); lesion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lesion (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); lesion (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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