lesion vs injury

injury vs lesion

lesion and injury both are nouns.

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

As nouns, injury is a hypernym of lesion; that is, injury is a word with a broader meaning than lesion:

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

Other hypernyms of lesion include harm, hurt, trauma.

lesion (noun)	injury (noun)
any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part	wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted
an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)	an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage
	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 lesion and injury

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