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Wound :: Wound (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc..

Lint :: Lint (n.) Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics..

Orifice :: Orifice (n.) A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound..

Stylet :: Stylet (n.) An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum..

Fester :: Fester (n.) To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers..

Digestive :: Digestive (n.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration..

Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

Casualty :: Casualty (n.) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion..

Stricken :: Stricken (p. p. & a.) Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer..

Vulnerate :: Vulnerate (v. t.) To wound; to hurt.

Laceration :: Laceration (n.) A breach or wound made by lacerating.

Punctured :: Punctured (a.) Produced by puncture; having the characteristics of a puncture; as, a punctured wound..

Woundwort :: Woundwort (n.) Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys..

Stab :: Stab (v. i.) To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon..

Scab :: Scab (n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part..

Arquebusade :: Arquebusade (n.) A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds..

Coil :: Coil (n.) A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound..

Litter :: Litter (n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it..

Puncture :: Puncture (n.) A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin..

Langate :: Langate (n.) A linen roller used in dressing wounds.

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