How to Use lesion in a Sentence
lesion
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The middle area of the skin lesion starts to fade away first.
—Stephanie Watson, SELF, 8 Apr. 2022
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The wireless device is pressed against the lesion to record it.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2024
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According to the study, MRI scans showed a lesion on the left side of his brain.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2024
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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
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The laparoscopy found 37 lesions and a cyst on her ovary, which was removed via surgery.
—Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
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Sometimes just one lesion is found—often in the groin area, out of plain sight.
—Erin Prater, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2022
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The lesions last at least 10 days and as long as several weeks.
—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
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The bacteria can cause swelling and redness around the wound site, and round, raised lesions.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
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Luke Brown points to a monkeypox lesion on the knuckle of his thumb.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 22 July 2022
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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
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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
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Scalp lesions can cause hair loss.2223 Lupus can affect the skin anywhere on the body.
—Anne Harding, Health, 19 Apr. 2023
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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
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The device allows providers to shine light on a patient’s skin lesion.
—Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 25 Jan. 2024
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This wasn’t a lesion in the temporal lobe, or epilepsy.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2023
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The lesions tend to appear and go through stages together.
—Julia Landwehr, Health, 21 June 2023
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The patients were followed every three to six months, with the aim to eradicate the lesion for those in the treatment arm.
—Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 15 June 2022
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In the first stage, the most distinctive symptom of syphilis is a chancre, which is a circular lesion on the body.
—Amy Yurkanin | Ayurkanin@al.com, al, 24 Sep. 2022
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Palatal petechiae can be lesions or bruising on the soft palate of a person's mouth.
—Reven Widener, Health, 31 May 2023
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The lesion has since healed but has left behind pockmarked scar tissue.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2022
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And the lesion-causing virus uses it to spread from the site of initial infection to other areas of the skin.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
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The lesion was removed and Pelé has been in and out of the hospital for chemotherapy and other treatments over the last year.
—Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
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But a lesion found on his left rib during spring training required a bone graft surgery and a lengthy rehab stint.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2024
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The device scans the lesion and takes several recordings.
—Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 25 Jan. 2024
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Feral cats in area have some type of skin disease causing lesions. . . .
—Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
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When the first lesion appeared on Jeffrey Todd's right cheek in mid-July, the 43-year-old didn't pay too much attention to it.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2022
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Weeks was a slight woman who would likely have noticed a lesion in her breast early on.
—Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
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Omar took a turn for the worse and became paralyzed in his hind legs, probably because of a lesion on his spine, the zoo said.
—Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 23 Oct. 2021
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Citrus canker, a bacterial disease, is not harmful to humans, but causes lesions on the fruit, stems and leaves.
—Freida Frisaro, Orlando Sentinel, 6 July 2024
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One of the lesions was consistent with osteosarcoma or a meningioma.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024
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