open wound
Unhealed flesh breach
An open wound is an injury where skin is broken, exposing underlying tissue to the outside—cuts, lacerations, punctures, abrasions.
Distinguished from closed wounds like bruises or internal injuries.
Figuratively, an open wound is emotional pain that hasn't healed: The betrayal remained an open wound between them.
- bleedingBlood loss from injury
- bleed outFatally lose blood
- abrasionShallow surface wound
- raw fleshAnimal tissue, not cooked
- gashDeep, ragged incision
cut · laceration · incision · festering · skin · debridement · inflammation · piercing · slit · vulnerability · fissure · necrosis · suppurating · traumatize · skin lesion · sutures · first aid · weeping
- injuriesbruise, fracture, sprain, fractures, concussion
- skin injuriescut, scrape, scratch, bruise, burn
- suffering metaphorsdrowning, bottomless pit, chains, cage, trapped
- woundsulcer, cuts, bedsore, bruises, bedsores
- exposuresun exposure, light exposure, cold exposure, heat exposure, UV exposure
- emergencies911, ambulance, emergency, emergency room, ER