Converse of object

• heal: Side 2: Heal wounds from the past, & reach for the future.

• inflict: The spines can be a problem in gardens as they can inflict wounds.

• exude: Superficial exuding wounds, for example donor sites, are also suitable for this therapy.

• fungating: Fungating malignant wounds often become cavity wounds, due to extensive tissue destruction ( Figure 6 ).

• gape: Muscle and skin were badly torn, and blood was pouring out of a gaping wound.

• cleanse: We cannot be healed of physical infection unless we are willing to let the doctor touch and cleanse the wound.

Adjective modifier

• self-inflicted: Her husband was beside her with only a minor self-inflicted wound.

• chronic: Abstract: Yvonne Franks discusses the use of low level LASER therapy in the management of chronic wounds.

• infected: Symptoms Sometimes, the first and only sign of tetanus is a spasm of the muscles nearest to the infected wound.

• malodorous: Sugar pastes have also been used to clean dirty and malodorous wounds in the past ( Middleton & Seal, 1985 ).

• surgical: Infections of the surgical wound has been the most common postoperative complication.

Modifies a noun

• healing: The inner core helps to maintain the moist environment optimal for wound healing.

• dressing: They are available as flat, with or without adhesive borders or as cavity wound dressings.

• exudate: These dressings can be left in place for up to seven days, depending on the amount of wound exudate.

• cleansing: This assumption suggests that burns would particularly benefit from this regime of wound cleansing.

Noun used with modifier

• gunshot: The current head count for deaths by gunshot wounds this year in Los Angeles is in excess of six hundred people.

• stab: One of the stab wounds penetrated the heart with fatal effect.

• puncture: I have included a diagram of the sites of the puncture wounds which were evident.

• shrapnel: A fellow Australian journalist, Eric Campbell, suffered minor shrapnel wounds in the blast.

• bullet: According to the BBC reporter, the victims all had single bullet wounds in the back of the head or neck.