Maceration vs Laceration - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between maceration and laceration

is that maceration is the act or process of macerating while laceration is an irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue.

(en noun)

The act or process of macerating.

* The Armored Dinosaurs edited by Kenneth Carpenter 2001 google print ref

... proposed that the small size of the teeth ... implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.

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(en noun)

An irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue.

The doctor sewed up the laceration in his arm.