Wound

Wound

A wound is a type of injury in which skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). In pathology, it specifically refers to a sharp injury which damages the dermis of the skin.

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Famous quotes containing the word wound:

    “These lovers cry, O ho they die!
    Yet that which seems the wound to kill
    Doth turn O ho! to ha, ha, he!
    So dying love lives still.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The wound that’s made by fire will heal,
    But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.”
    —Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)

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    And slicks his slithering wiles
    To turn the venereal awl
    In the livid wound of love.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)