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LESION (through Fr. from Lat. laesio,...

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 490 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LESION (through Fr. from
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Lat. laesio, injury, laedere, to hurt)
  , an injury, hurt, damage . In Scots law the
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term is used of damage suffered by a party in a contract sufficient to enable him to bring an
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action for setting it aside . In pathology, the chief use, the word is applied to any morbid change in the structure of an
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organ, whether shown by visible changes or by disturbance of
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function .

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