abrasion 復習
ニューヨークの地下鉄で、母親が２歳の息子をベビーカーに乗せたまま階段から落としたとして勾留されています。
Woman in police custody after allegedly throwing 2-year-old son in stroller down stairs in NYC subway station
A 25-year-old woman is in police custody after she allegedly threw her two-year-old son, who was strapped into a stroller, down a set of stairs in a New York City subway station Thursday, ABC affiliate WABC reported, citing the NYPD.
The alleged incident took place around 2:30 p.m. in the Bronx at the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station in the borough's Melrose neighborhood.
The woman -- Jessica Mixon of the Bronx, according to WABC -- was taken to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in the Bronx for a psychological evaluation.
She faces charges of reckless assault on a child, reckless endangerment and abandonment.
The toddler was taken to Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx in serious but stable condition. He suffered a cut to his left eye and an abrasion to his head.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-police-custody-throwing-year-son-stairs-nyc/story?id=47779254
取り上げる単語は、"abrasion"です。文脈的に、怪我の状態を表す単語であることが分かります。
『ジーニアス英和辞典』第４版（大修館）で調べてみると、「（皮膚の）すりむき、（岩の）摩滅、摩耗、すり減り、浸食、いらだち、擦過傷、擦り傷」とありました。男の子は、左目と頭に傷を負って重体で病院に運ばれましたが、容体は安定したとのことです。
LDOCEでは、"an area on the surface of your skin that has been injured by being rubbedagainst something hard"や"the process of rubbing a surface very hard so that it becomes damaged or disappears"と定義されていました。(Akim)
