infected cut
Contaminated skin laceration
An infected cut is a wound where bacteria have entered and multiplied, causing inflammation, pain, pus, or spreading redness.
The phrase describes both the injury and its complication: The infected cut on her hand needed antibiotics.
Signs of infection include warmth, swelling, and discharge—distinguishing it from a clean wound healing normally.
- woundCoiled, or an injury
- open woundUnhealed break in skin
- pusInfected tissue fluid
- swollenAbnormally enlarged
- festeringBecoming infected, decaying
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- bacterial infectionsanthrax, botulism, cholera, diphtheria, lockjaw
- Wound Infectionssuppuration, wound healing
- Hand Ailmentstrigger finger, carpal tunnel, jammed finger, broken finger, finger fracture
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