Dictionary

flesh wound en · NOUN

Meanings

1. An injury which pierces the skin and causes bleeding, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs, and does not carry a serious threat of death.
   • I found him dreadfully bruised, worse even than myself, perhaps owing to the excessive whiteness of his skin, and faint and weak with the loss of blood from the flesh wound in his side, but for all that cheerful as a cricket, and asking for some breakfast. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

Forms

Translations (11)

es herida superficial (injury which pierces the skin, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs) · es nafra (injury which pierces the skin, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs) · mi kaiākiri (injury which pierces the skin, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs) · fr blessure légère (injury which pierces the skin, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs) · sv köttsår (injury which pierces the skin, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs) · it ferita superficiale (injury which pierces the skin, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs) · fi lihashaava (injury which pierces the skin, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs) · cmn 輕傷 /轻伤 (injury which pierces the skin, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs) · de Fleischwunde (injury which pierces the skin, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs) · ru ране́ние мя́гких тка́ней (injury which pierces the skin, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs) · da kødsår (injury which pierces the skin, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs)