Explore Laceration through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like wound or lesion. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Laceration meaning
- An irregular open wound to soft tissue.
- The act of lacerating or tearing, either literally or figuratively.
Using Laceration
- The main meaning on this page is: An irregular open wound to soft tissue. | The act of lacerating or tearing, either literally or figuratively.
- Useful related words include: wound, lesion, tear.
- In the example corpus, laceration often appears in combinations such as: laceration to, laceration on, head laceration.
Context around Laceration
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Laceration
- In this selection, "laceration" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, head, inch, significant, rao, roughly and hazard stand out and add context to how "laceration" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a further laceration to his and a head laceration while her. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "laceration" sits close to words such as aachen, abayomi and abbots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with laceration
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The complainer sustained a laceration to her head and had to attend hospital. (13 words)
Due to the defendant having a laceration on his hand, he was transported to the ER. (16 words)
The older man suffered eye pain and a minor laceration, but refused medical attention, police said. (16 words)
After assessing his grandma’s injuries and helping her to a nearby bench, Harry realised there was no first aid kit on the family boat, so he approached others nearby and swiftly returned with the necessary kit to clean and dress the laceration. (43 words)
About 1:50 a.m. he was riding a train in the 100 block of West Cermak Road when a man sitting across from him stabbed him in the face with a knife, causing a laceration, Chicago police said. (39 words)
They will allege that the doctor who saw Carlos on his first visit to the children’s hospital “should have taken steps to adequately determine whether the laceration was superficial, which may have required examination under anaesthetic”. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
According to Crofts, Bonamici was treated for a concussion and a head laceration, while her husband was treated for ‘minor’ injuries.
Due to the defendant having a laceration on his hand, he was transported to the ER.
He had a one-inch laceration to the left side of his head and was treated by a doctor at the hospital for swelling on his right forearm.
Mr Merriman, 38, suffered two deep lacerations to his head which required 12 stitches, and a less significant laceration to his elbow.
Shannon was taken to Worthing Hospital where she was given multiple stitches after a CT scan showed a severe laceration to her head which exposed her skull.
The complainer sustained a laceration to her head and had to attend hospital.
The older man suffered eye pain and a minor laceration, but refused medical attention, police said.
The scary shark scorecard started June 30 when a 57-year-old man suffered a laceration on his right foot while swimming in the ocean at Jones Beach in Wantagh.
They will allege that the doctor who saw Carlos on his first visit to the children’s hospital “should have taken steps to adequately determine whether the laceration was superficial, which may have required examination under anaesthetic”.
After assessing his grandma’s injuries and helping her to a nearby bench, Harry realised there was no first aid kit on the family boat, so he approached others nearby and swiftly returned with the necessary kit to clean and dress the laceration.
A further laceration to his eyebrow was treated with steri-strips as was a 2-3cm cut to his right cheek.
An officer testified to seeing Friday with a laceration to one of his legs, a bandaged hand and a swollen head while sitting in a wheelchair at the hospital.
Asked by prosecutor Latoya Bernard to explain ‘laceration’, Rao said, “Because of the multiple gunshots, organs inside of his chest cavity, lungs, heart, intestines, were destroyed.
As reported, one of the victims sustained a fractured jaw and the other man sustained a cut lip, laceration on his ear and swelling to his forehead.
He was subsequently taken to the major trauma unit at Hospital and received 27 stitches to a head injury, as well as a further 10 to a laceration to his abdomen.
Officers found a wound on the top of the man’s head, described as being a “small laceration,” roughly a half-inch long.
Police said a 29-year-old officer suffered a laceration to his head during Mr Taumata’s arrest and was taken to hospital in a stable condition.
The issue is over reports the snowmobile’s drive clutch can break, allowing fragments to escape the snowmobile shielding, posing a laceration hazard to riders.
About 1:50 a.m. he was riding a train in the 100 block of West Cermak Road when a man sitting across from him stabbed him in the face with a knife, causing a laceration, Chicago police said.
Det Garda Durkan said the 20-year-old woman received a laceration wound to the rear of her head and a defensive wound to her hand.
Common combinations with laceration
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- laceration to 13×
- laceration on 8×
- head laceration 5×
- suffered laceration 4×
- the laceration 4×
- laceration but 2×
- had laceration 2×
- deep laceration 2×