Definition of "lesion" []

• A wound or injury. (noun)
• A localized pathological change in a bodily organ or tissue. (noun)
• An infected or diseased patch of skin. (noun)
• To cause a lesion to form on or in. (verb-transitive)

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• "Kennedy did not rely on foreign law principles to definitively interpret a constitutional provision, as for example, Justice Marshall did in Eastern Airlines to interpret the term lesion corporelle."
• "The word lesion, from the Latin for “injury,” is used very generally by physicians."
• "I had a minor skin lesion removed by a plastic surgeon in Guadalajara at a cost of about $100."