Vulnus

Quick meaning: Vulnus is a noun meaning (medicine, formal) A wound.

Meaning

(medicine, formal) A wound.

Example Sentences

But for the veterans in the Pannonian legions, their vulnera were no longer their tokens of honour, but an indication of the severity of service in the army.

I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge; and the interior membranes were so divellicated, that the os or bone very plainly appeared through the aperture of the vulnus or wound.

Word Forms

• vulnera

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vulneration, wounde, wownd, breach, hurt, ulcer.

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