lesion
Example Sentences
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The illness caused flulike symptoms along with rashes and lesions, and nearly 500 people died.
From Science Daily
Common symptoms are lesions or a skin rash, which can last for two to four weeks, plus fever, headaches, back pain, muscle aches and tiredness.
From BBC
At first, the acting student thought the lesion was just a result of biting her tongue during an epileptic seizure, but doctors decided to biopsy the area and found stage two squamous cell carcinoma.
From BBC
The scientists observed that as these sticky lesions accumulate, they disrupt normal mitochondrial activity.
From Science Daily
Fluorescent microplastics used in the study were found inside plaques and concentrated within the endothelial layer, consistent with reports from human samples that have revealed microplastics in arterial lesions.
From Science Daily
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