Lesion vs. Injury

The same problem occurs in swedish as injury (“skada”) is one kind of lesion. In medical dictionaries lesion is explained as could be due to violence or disorder, and is a “medical term for harmful influence on tissue or organs”, but damage (“skada”) is a synonym, but with the added note “lesion is used to refer to any damage to the body, from the fracture of a bone to a cut on the skin”.

In Swedish we can use “lesion” and “skada” to make a difference between the two, but it is an artifical difference, and not useful for the users.

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