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Raw wound

noun

A wound that exposes subcutaneous tissue.

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"Raw wound" Quotes from Famous Books

... condition the reference to the pummeling he had received from Jabe came like a dash of acid in a raw wound. A flood of fury swept ...

— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman

... feeling that almost overpowered him. His mind was far away in Athabasca, once more he was seeing the dark pool, the swiftly flowing water, the campfire, and his father bending over it. His heart was quivering as if a hand had been rudely thrust into a raw wound in it. ...

— The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land • Ralph Connor

... had crept close to Thor's wounded leg. He rose up, and his nose caught the scent of the raw wound. Gently his tongue touched it. It was like velvet—that tongue. It was wonderfully pleasant to feel, and Thor stood there for many moments, making neither movement nor sound while the cub licked his wound. Then he lowered his great head. He sniffed the soft little ball of friendship that ...

— The Grizzly King • James Oliver Curwood

... thrust his finger consciously into a raw wound. He saw Justin wince, and with pitiless cunning he continued to prod that tender place until he had aggravated the smart of ...

— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini

... brickbats and broken panes and slabs of dropped plaster. A thin grey powder had settled on them all. And by the side of each man the dust was stiffened into a red cake with a glairy pool in the middle of it, fed from the raw wound; and where two men lay together their pools had joined and overflowed in ...

— The Romantic • May Sinclair