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lacerations
noun
Plural of laceration
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San Jose basically mustered up a reserve squad due to Chris Wondolowski, Clarence Goodson, Nana Attakora, Marvin Chavez all being at the Gold Cup; add in Lenhart recovering from those head lacerations, Bernardez and Salinas sitting out due to suspensions (the latter was sat due to the MLS disciplinary committee's decision about an elbow to Keane).
But minor lacerations are more common than serious head injuries.
Thousands have broken bones and appalling lacerations from their pummelling by the waves.
A retired US Army surgeon general said the military command was concerned that the book's graphic images "could be spun politically to show the horrors of war".Horrors there are: the shredding lacerations of blast; cavitating high-velocity ballistic wounds; injuries from "biological projectiles" formed of body fragments from other victims dismembered in explosions.
His lacerations of religion are especially luscious.
The Japanese used three lengths of bamboo bound together, which caused multiple lacerations, and although judicial torture in that country was abolished in 1873, captured Koreans and Formosans were still beaten in this fashion, as were Allied prisoners of war in World War II.
Because it is smooth and can be held from either end, it tends to inflict few cuts or lacerations; it can be used for both striking and control tactics.
"Two lacerations under my left eye needed eight stitches, but the pain of that was nothing compared to the humiliation," the outside-half said recently in Behind the Lions, a thoroughly entertaining book of reminiscence covering the entire history of Lions touring.
The prosecutor added that the only visible hand injuries were "wrist lacerations or abrasions" — "consistent with being handcuffed and struggling".
She said the four other patients she knew of had injuries including facial lacerations, broken ribs and collar bones.
Gary Bruhn, the Mayor of Windermere, Florida, told TV news channel CNN the golfer suffered facial lacerations but was later released from hospital.
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