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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.
1999, Acta classica, volumes 42-43, page 89:
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.
vulnus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
vulnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to wound a person (also used metaphorically): vulnus infligere alicui
to be (seriously, mortally) wounded: vulnus (grave, mortiferum) accipere, excipere
after many had been wounded on both sides: multis et illatis et acceptis vulneribus (B. G. 1. 50)
weakened by wounds: vulneribus confectus
to open an old wound: refricarevulnus, cicatricem obductam
to die of wounds: ex vulnere mori (Fam. 10. 33)
the victory cost much blood and many wounds, was very dearly bought: victoria multo sanguine ac vulneribus stetit (Liv. 23. 30)
(ambiguous) wounds (scars) on the breast: vulnera (cicatrices) adversa (opp. aversa)
(ambiguous) wounds (scars) on the breast: vulnera adverso corpore accepta
