noun.
An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such patch of skin.
verb.
To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.
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noun.
an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
noun.
any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part
Word Usage
"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."