harm vs lesion

harm and lesion both are nouns.

harm is a verb but lesion is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
harm	Yes	No	Yes	No
lesion	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, lesion is a hyponym of harm; that is, lesion is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than harm:

harm: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
lesion: an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)

Other hyponyms of harm include brain damage, birth trauma, blast trauma, bleeding, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, blunt trauma, bruise, contusion, bump, burn, dislocation, electric shock, break, fracture, cryopathy, frostbite, intravasation, penetrating injury, penetrating trauma, pinch, rupture, bite, insect bite, sting, strain, whiplash, whiplash injury, wale, weal, welt, wheal, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

harm (noun)	lesion (noun)
the act of damaging something or someone	any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part
the occurrence of a change for the worse	an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

harm (verb)	lesion (verb)
cause or do harm to

Difference between harm and lesion

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