injury vs lesion

lesion vs injury

injury and lesion both are nouns.

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

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

injury: 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 injury 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.

injury (noun)	lesion (noun)
wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted	any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part
an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage	an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
an accident that results in physical damage or hurt
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

Difference between injury and lesion

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