Both Uses of
laceration
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- As the Inquisition rarely allowed its victims to be seen with their limbs distorted and their flesh lacerated by torture, so madness is always concealed in its cell, from whence, should it depart, it is conveyed to some gloomy hospital, where the doctor has no thought for man or mind in the mutilated being the jailer delivers to him.†
Chpt 13-14
- The shot had frightfully lacerated her throat, leaving two gaping wounds from which, as well as the mouth, the blood was pouring in floods.†
Chpt 45-46 *
Definition:
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(laceration) a cut -- especially of the skin -- and often implying that the cut was not clean, but instead left jagged edges