ABRASION
\ɐbɹˈe͡ɪʒən], \ɐbɹˈeɪʒən], \ɐ_b_ɹ_ˈeɪ_ʒ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ABRASION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.
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The substance rubbed off.
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The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.
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The substance rubbed off.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. An excoriation, a circumscribed removal of the epidermis of skin or mucous membrane. 2. A scraping away of a portion of the surface. 3. In dentistry, the mechanical wearing away of the surface of a tooth.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance, under the form of small shreds, in the mucous membranes of the intestines,- (F.) Raclures des Boyaux. Also an ulceration of the skin, possessing similar characters. According to Vicq d'Azyr, the word has been used for the absorption of the molecules composing the various organs.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn.: excoriation. The rubbing or scraping away of a superficial portion of skin or mucous membrane or an incrustation, also the resulting lesion.
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In dentistry the wearing away of tooth substance. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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