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The body's bookmark for 'something changed here, go check.'
means An area of tissue damaged by injury or disease — a wound, sore, tumor, or abnormal patch that marks where something went wrong.
from From Latin 'laesio' (injury, hurt), from 'laedere' (to hurt, strike, damage) — the same root that gives us 'collide' and 'collision.' The word entered English medical vocabulary in the 1400s, carrying its Latin sense almost unchanged: a mark left by harm.
- not a diagnosis
- just abnormal tissue, cause unknown until tested
- etymology
- from Latin laesio, meaning injury
- imaging term
- radiologists use it when unsure what they see
- can be harmless
- scars and moles count as lesions too