Noun: vulnus
| Singular | vulnus |
| Plural | vulnera |
Sample Sentences
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I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge; and the interior membranes were so divellicated, that the os or bone very plainly appeared through the aperture of the vulnus or wound. [1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:]
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But for the veterans in the Pannonian legions, their vulnera were no longer their tokens of honour, but an indication of the severity of service in the army. [1999, Acta classica, volumes 42-43, page 89:]
Nouns inflected like vulnus
morphogenus,
rostrolatus,
bigenus,
pseudogenus,
type genus,
form genus,
oogenus,
latus,
ulcus,
supergenus,
cloud genus,
glomus,
vulnus,
vellus,
viscus,
plurigenus,
ichnogenus,
nothogenus,
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vulnus.