意味(日本語)

(医学)(組織・機能の)障害、病変

語源

• laed-, -lid-, les-, -lis- : L.laedere=to strike, knock（たたく、ぶつかる）

意味(英語)

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

例文

• The word lesion, from the Latin for “injury,” is used very generally by physicians.