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)

    “How poor are they that have not patience!
    What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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    Shelley would tell me. Shelley wound be stunned:

    The dullest Tommy hugs that fancy now.
    ‘Pushing up daisies’ is their creed, you know.”
    —Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)