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lesion
Monday 4 July 2016
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Definition : A lesion is any abnormal damage or change in the tissue of an organism , usually caused by disease or trauma . Lesion is derived from the Latin word "laesio", meaning injury . Lesions may occur in plants as well as animals.
In this website, we will prefer the word " anomalies " to the word " lesions ", because this last word implied a damage by a cause , that is not always present.
According to the level of the dmage / lesion
cellular damage / cell damage
cellular lesion / cell lesion
tissular damage / tissue damage
tissular lesion / tissue lesion
organ damage / organ damage
organ lesion / organ lesion
See also
diseases
pathogen agents