What's the difference between attaint and wound?

Attaint


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To attain; to get act; to hit.
  • (v. t.) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
  • (v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder.
  • (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
  • (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
  • (v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
  • (p. p.) Attainted; corrupted.
  • (v.) A touch or hit.
  • (v.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
  • (v.) A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried.
  • (v.) A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
  • (v.) An infecting influence.

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Wound


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Wind
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Wind
  • () imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
  • (n.) A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like.
  • (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
  • (n.) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity.
  • (n.) To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
  • (n.) To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
  • (2) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
  • (3) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
  • (4) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
  • (5) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
  • (6) The severity of injury in a gunshot wound is dependent on many factors, including the type of firearm; the velocity, mass, and construction of the bullet; and the structural properties of the tissues that are wounded.
  • (7) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
  • (8) In the controlled wound care group, only three ulcers in three patients achieved complete healing; the remaining 24 ulcers in 20 patients failed to achieve even 50% healing in the stipulated 3-month period.
  • (9) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
  • (10) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
  • (11) Endoscopic papillotomy was performed which resulted in a polypoid tumour delivering itself into the wound followed by a free flow of bile.
  • (12) Both models showed the expected wound-healing defects of the diabetic rats.
  • (13) We based our approach on the anteroposterior location of the incarceration site and the amount of retina incarcerated into the wound.
  • (14) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
  • (15) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
  • (16) In the aetiology the Periodontitis apicalis and wounds after tooth extractions are in the highest position.
  • (17) The patient experienced an uneventful recovery and at the 6-week follow-up, the pelvic organs were within the normal limit and all wounds had healed.
  • (18) The al-Shifa, like hospitals across Gaza, is chronically short of medical supplies after treating thousands of wounded during the conflict.
  • (19) No perforations, stenoses or thermic lesions after wound healing were observed.
  • (20) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.