Wound
A wound is a type of injury in which skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). In pathology, it specifically refers to a sharp injury which damages the dermis of the skin.
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... Philippine Book Guild the guild's initial publication (1937) was Rotor's The Wound and the Scar, despite Rotor's protests that someone else's work should have been ... Rotor's best-known literary works are The Wound and the Scar (1937), Confidentially, Doctor (1965), Selected Stories from the Wound and the Scar (1973), The Men Who Play God (1983), and the ...
... A wound begins to open in his side which has an agonizing hunger for raw meat which he must constantly feed in order to stop the burning pain ... Perplexing his doctors, Juvenal's wound becomes hungrier as the film progresses, the man becomes delirious and murders his wife, thinking she will leave him because of his condition ... witch then reappears and coaxes him into feeding the wound with the body of his dead wife ...
... had them searching for a label until 2007, which led to Salt the Wound being signed to Rotten Records ... Salt the Wound achieved underground success in 2008 through their debut studio album, Carnal Repercussions which attracted radio airplay as well as ... On October 30, 2009, Salt the Wound announced that they were "hanging up the towel" ...
... a miserable sinner, salute and worship the most Sacred Wound of Thy Shoulder on which Thou didst bear Thy heavy Cross, which so tore Thy Flesh and laid bare Thy Bones as to inflict on Thee an anguish greater than any ... sorrowful I praise and glorify Thee and give Thee thanks for this most sacred and painful Wound, beseeching Thee by that exceeding pain and by the crushing burden of Thy heavy Cross, to be merciful to me, a ... Bernard, he asked Jesus which was His greatest unrecorded suffering and the wound that inflicted the most pain on Him in Calvary and Jesus answered "I had on My Shoulder, while I bore My Cross on the Way of Sorrows ...
More definitions of "wound":
- (noun): A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat.
Synonyms: injury, combat injury
- (noun): The act of inflicting a wound.
Synonyms: wounding
- (noun): Any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision.
Synonyms: lesion
- (noun): A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride).
Example: "He feared that mentioning it might reopen the wound"; "deep in her breast lives the silent wound"; "The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound--that he will never get over it"--Robert Frost
- (verb): Cause injuries or bodily harm to.
Synonyms: injure
Famous quotes containing the word wound:
“And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.”
—Bible: Hebrew Exodus 21:23.
“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal—every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open—this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”
—Washington Irving (1783–1859)
“In the centre of his cage
The pacing animal
Surveys the jungle cove
And slicks his slithering wiles
To turn the venereal awl
In the livid wound of love.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)