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:
“The wound kills that does not bleed.
It has no nurse nor kin to know
Nor kin to care.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“But even suppose blood should flow. Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man’s real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)