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Medical Term

lesion

also: lesions

1. a WOUND or injury to body tissues. 2. an area of tissue that, because of damage caused by disease or wounding, does not function fully. Thus, primary lesions include tumours and ulcers, and from primary lesions secondary lesions may form.

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