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A laceration is a wound that occurs when skin, tissue, and/or muscle is torn or cut open. Lacerations may be deep or shallow, long or short, and wide or narrow. Most lacerations are the result of the skin hitting an object, or an object hitting the skin with force. Incisions or incised wounds, caused by a clean, sharp-edged object such as a knife, a razor or a glass splinter.
Laceration repair is the act of cleaning, preparing, and closing the wound.
Sutures are used for wounds that are deep, bleeding, have jagged edges.