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an injured or diseased spot or area on or in the body
skin lesions a brain lesion
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Recent Examples of lesion
Biden had a cancerous lesion removed from his chest while in office.
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Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Quantitative Insight: Software measures lesion size, growth rate and tissue composition with sub-millimeter precision, turning qualitative impressions into actionable numbers for personalized care.
—Yidi Xu, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Skin lesions, particularly gray patches, are becoming more prevalent in southern resident orcas, Weiss added, so allokelping might be a way to treat those lesions.
—Marlowe Starling, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
Nearly 500,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme disease each year in the U.S. For about 75% of them, the first sign will be a skin lesion that appears one to four weeks after being bitten by an infected deer tick.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 18 June 2025
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Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Quantitative Insight: Software measures lesion size, growth rate and tissue composition with sub-millimeter precision, turning qualitative impressions into actionable numbers for personalized care.
—Yidi Xu, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Skin lesions, particularly gray patches, are becoming more prevalent in southern resident orcas, Weiss added, so allokelping might be a way to treat those lesions.
—Marlowe Starling, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
Nearly 500,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme disease each year in the U.S. For about 75% of them, the first sign will be a skin lesion that appears one to four weeks after being bitten by an infected deer tick.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lesion
Noun
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The Republic first tied the Goons to the fatal group beating of Preston Lord, 16.—
Elena Santa Cruz,
AZCentral.com,
8 July 2025
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Shooting after shooting, a dark tally of beatings and murder.—
Will Potter
July 7,
Literary Hub,
7 July 2025
Noun
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However, the East is drastically weakened as a result of injuries to Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum and Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton.—
DJ Siddiqi,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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In 2001, the Ig Nobel Prize in medicine went to Peter Barss of McGill University in Canada for his 1984 survey of injuries due to falling coconuts in Papua New Guinea.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 July 2025
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“Lesion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lesion. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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