All 7 Uses
laceration
in
Turtles All the Way Down
(Edited)
- Bad news, you have a lacerated liver.
p. 222.2 *lacerated = cut
- Good news, it's a mild laceration.
p. 222.2
- As liver lacerations go, this is about as good as they get.
p. 222.8lacerations = cuts
- Surely you don't think drinking hand sanitizer while hospitalized for a lacerated liver marks forward progress in your mental health journey.
p. 233.8lacerated = cut
- I had switched to a different medication, which Mom made sure I took every morning, and I wasn't allowed to get up except to go to the bathroom lest I re-lacerate my liver.
p. 235.9
- Can I hug you without lacerating your liver?
p. 237.9lacerating = cutting
- I lacerated my liver!
p. 276.4lacerated = cut
Definitions:
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(1)
(laceration) a cut -- especially of the skin -- and often implying that the cut was not clean, but instead left jagged edges
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)