--- title: Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Your skin is a wall that keeps germs out, and a cut or graze is a hole in that wall. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters # Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters Lesson 4 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/0/) — Your skin is a wall that keeps germs out, and a cut or graze is a hole in that wall. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/1/) — When you graze your knee in the playground, clean running water washing out the grit does the main job; stinging antiseptic is not needed for most grazes. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/2/) — A cut that bleeds a lot needs firm pressure with a clean cloth for about 10 minutes without peeping, so the blood can clot and plug the hole. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/3/) — Deep or gaping cuts heal better when the edges are held together by stitches, medical glue or paper strips. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/4/) — The scab is the body's own plaster, so leave it alone; red, hot, puffy skin with pus means germs got in and someone should look at it. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/5/) — A graze scrapes off the top layer of skin, and dirt left in it can cause an infection. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/6/) — Rinsing a graze under clean running water washes out grit; stinging antiseptic is not needed for most grazes. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/7/) — Pressing firmly on a bleeding cut for about 10 minutes and raising it helps a clot form; lifting the cloth to look starts the bleeding again. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/8/) — Deep or gaping cuts are closed with stitches, medical skin glue or paper strips, after the area is numbed; edges held together heal better and leave a smaller scar. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/9/) — Some stitches dissolve by themselves; others come out after about a week, which feels like a tug. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/10/) — Medical skin glue falls off by itself after one or two weeks; superglue from home must not be used on cuts. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/11/) — A splinter is pulled out with clean tweezers at the same angle it went in; digging with a needle can push it deeper, and a deep one, for example under a nail, may need a nurse. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/12/) — Tetanus germs live in soil and can get into deep or dirty wounds; the danger is the dirt, not the rust, and a tetanus jab protects you, so nurses ask whether you have had one. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/13/) — Redness, heat, swelling and yellow pus are signs of infection; pus is dead white blood cells and germs. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/14/) — A spreading red area, fever or red lines up the arm need a doctor quickly. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/15/) — A scab is a dried blood clot protecting the new skin; picking it reopens the wound and can leave a bigger scar; an itchy scab is a normal part of healing. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/16/) — Some people faint at the sight of blood because their heart slows and blood pressure drops; it is a reflex, not weakness. - ← previous: [Sprains, strains and bruises](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/3-sprains-strains-and-bruises/) - next →: [Nosebleeds and bumps on the head](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)