The wearing away of tooth structure or restorative material through an abnormal mechanical process.
Tooth wear caused by brushing.
The scraping off of the superficial layers of the skin.
A scraping or rubbing away of tissue by injury or mechanical means.
Condition in which the surface of the skin has been rubbed off by a rough surface and bleeds.
An area of the cornea in which some of the epithelial cells have been denuded.
Abrasion means the rubbing-off of the surface of the skin or of a mucous membrane due to some mechanical injury. Such injuries, though slight in themselves, are apt to allow the entrance of dirt-containing organisms, and so to lead to an abscess or some more severe form of inflammation.
Scraping away of skin or mucous membrane as a result of injury or by mechanical means, as in dermabrasion for cosmetic purposes.
Another term for it is an abrasion. It entails the gradual wearing off of the outer layer of the skin due to friction against a coarse or uneven surface.
Termed as a graze or abrasion, a superficial wound on the skin’s surface is inflicted through the act of scraping or rubbing.