infected wound

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• wound — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deep, serious, severe ▪ fatal ▪ a fatal gunshot wound ▪ minor ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• wound — n Wound, trauma, traumatism, lesion, bruise, contusion are comparable when they mean an injury to one of the organs or parts of the body. Wound generally denotes an injury that is inflicted by a hard or sharp instrument (as a knife, a bullet, or… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Wound — This article is about wounds in humans and animals. For wounds in plants, see Plant pathology. For other uses, see Wound (disambiguation). Wound Classification and external resources Wounded man …   Wikipedia

• infected — in|fect|ed [ınˈfektıd] adj 1.) a part of your body or a wound that is infected has harmful ↑bacteria in it which prevent it from ↑healing →↑disinfect ▪ an infected finger ▪ Clean the wound so it doesn t get infected . 2.) food, water etc that is… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• wound — 01. My grandfather was [wounded] in the leg during the war. 02. Many soldiers died of their [wounds] in the First World War because medical science wasn t as advanced back then as it is today. 03. A homemade bomb exploded on the bus, killing 3,… …   Grammatical examples in English

• wound — 1. Trauma to any of the tissues of the body, especially that caused by physical means and with interruption of continuity. 2. A surgical incision. [O.E. wund] abraded w. SYN: abrasion (1). avulsed w. a w. caused by or resulting from avulsion.… …   Medical dictionary

• infected — adjective 1 a part of your body or a wound that is infected, has harmful bacteria in it which prevent it from healing (heal (1)): It was only a small cut, but it became infected. 2 food, water etc that is infected contains bacteria that spread… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• infected — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become, get ADVERB ▪ badly ▪ chronically PREPOSITION …   Collocations dictionary

• dirty wound — noun An external wound, primarily an untreated cut or tear of the skin, easily susceptible to infection as a result of exposure to unsanitary conditions, as would be likely at time of injury. Syn: contaminated wound, infected wound Ant: clean… …   Wiktionary

• Chronic wound — A chronic wound is a wound that does not heal in an orderly set of stages and in a predictable amount of time the way most wounds do; wounds that do not heal within three months are often considered chronic.[1] Chronic wounds seem to be detained… …   Wikipedia

• History of wound care — The history of wound care spans from prehistory to modern medicine. As wounds naturally heal by themselves, regardless of whether recovery from the scar or recovery from lost body tissue was a possibility, hunter gatherers would have noticed… …   Wikipedia