How to Use lesion in a Sentence

lesion

noun
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  • All of the leaves above the lesions soon wilt and turn brown.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2018
  • The middle area of the skin lesion starts to fade away first.
    — Stephanie Watson, SELF, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The findings showed a low-grade lesion of the biceps femoris of the left thigh.
    — SI.com, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The wireless device is pressed against the lesion to record it.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • According to the study, MRI scans showed a lesion on the left side of his brain.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The virus that grows at the site of the lesion can be spread to other parts of the body or even to other people.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Bernstein asked, pointing to a red lesion on the side of the patient’s thumb.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The actor took off his black turtleneck so the nurse could check for lesions.
    — charlotteobserver, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The laparoscopy found 37 lesions and a cyst on her ovary, which was removed via surgery.
    — Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
  • Sometimes just one lesion is found—often in the groin area, out of plain sight.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The lesions last at least 10 days and as long as several weeks.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
  • The bacteria can cause swelling and redness around the wound site, and round, raised lesions.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The doctor ordered a CT scan and found a tumor and lesions on both lungs.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • But months later, the doctor noticed a hard lump on his hand near to where the lesion had been.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2021
  • That obstructs the small artery that goes to the lesion, thereby cutting off the blood supply.
    — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 14 May 2018
  • By adding the Pap test to the HPV group, an additional three lesions were found.
    — Laurie McGinley, latimes.com, 3 July 2018
  • Luke Brown points to a monkeypox lesion on the knuckle of his thumb.
    — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 22 July 2022
  • That June, his first child was born with a large mass protruding from a lesion in his skull.
    — Daniel Lewis, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Early the next morning, a kind, red-bearded nurse told me the MRI showed brain lesions.
    — Katie Gutierrez, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The male calf, 3 feet long and 30 pounds with lesions on his skin, was stranded off Twin Rivers Park in Stuart.
    — Tiffini Theisen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The cat had clawed the man on the shoulder a month before his symptoms began, close to the site where his first lesion was found.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Scalp lesions can cause hair loss.2223 Lupus can affect the skin anywhere on the body.
    — Anne Harding, Health, 19 Apr. 2023
  • There will be tens of lesions that spread over the next few days accompanied by spikes of fever.
    — Gabriela Moraru, M.d., miamiherald, 1 May 2018
  • In late July, the lesion on his face scabbed over and fell off, leaving behind a small hole.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The device allows providers to shine light on a patient’s skin lesion.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Instead, a small lesion is made deep in the brain with ultrasound.
    — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • This wasn’t a lesion in the temporal lobe, or epilepsy.
    — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The lesions tend to appear and go through stages together.
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 21 June 2023
  • Some people infected by clade II in the U.S. have described the lesions as exceedingly painful.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The activist had already had to wait nine weeks for the most recent hospital transfer which detected the potentially cancerous lesion.
    — Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024

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