Lesion vs. Sore

Lesionnoun

(pathology) A wound or injury.

Soreadjective

Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.

‘Her feet were sore from walking so far.’;

Lesionnoun

(medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such patch of skin.

Soreadjective

Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

Lesionnoun

(biochemistry) Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.

Soreadjective

Dire; distressing.

‘The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.’;

Lesionverb

(transitive) To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

Soreadjective

(informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.

‘Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.’;

Lesionnoun

A hurt; an injury.

Soreadjective

(obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.

Lesionnoun

any visible abnormal structural change in a bodily part

Soreadverb

(archaic) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).

‘They were sore afraid.’; ‘The knight was sore wounded.’;

Lesionnoun

any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision

Soreadverb

Sorely.

Lesion

A lesion is any damage or abnormal change in the tissue of an organism, usually caused by disease or trauma. Lesion is derived from the Latin laesio .

‘injury’;

Sorenoun

An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.

‘They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.’;

Sorenoun

Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

Sorenoun

A group of ducks on land.

Sorenoun

A young hawk or falcon in its first year.

Sorenoun

A young buck in its fourth year.

Soreverb

(transitive) To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.

Soreadjective

Reddish brown; sorrel.

Soreadjective

Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; - said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.

Soreadjective

Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

‘Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.’;

Soreadjective

Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.

Soreadjective

Criminal; wrong; evil.

Sorenoun

A young hawk or falcon in the first year.

Sorenoun

A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.

Sorenoun

A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.

‘The dogs came and licked his sores.’;

Sorenoun

Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

‘I see plainly where his sore lies.’;

Soreadverb

In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.

‘Thy hand presseth me sore.’;

Soreadverb

Greatly; violently; deeply.

‘[Hannah] prayed unto the Lord and wept sore.’; ‘Sore sighed the knight, who this long sermon heard.’;

Sorenoun

an open skin infection

Soreadjective

hurting;

‘the tender spot on his jaw’;

Soreadjective

causing misery or pain or distress;

‘it was a sore trial to him’; ‘the painful process of growing up’;

Soreadjective

roused to anger;

‘stayed huffy a good while’; ‘she gets mad when you wake her up so early’; ‘mad at his friend’; ‘sore over a remark’;

Soreadjective

inflamed and painful;

‘his throat was raw’; ‘had a sore throat’;