lesion

Other forms of lesion

plural

lesions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lesion

What does lesion mean?

lesion means "any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lesion?

lesion has 2 syllables: le-sion. The stress falls on "le". In IPA it is /ˈliʒən/.

What is another word for lesion?

Close synonyms include wound. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lesion a common word?

lesion is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.