What increases my risk for a wound infection? Anything that decreases your body's ability to heal wounds may put you at risk for a wound infection. Diseases such as diabetes, cancer, or liver, kidney or lung conditions slow healing. Foreign objects such as glass or metal can get stuck in the wound and delay healing.
clause. n. 1. Grammar A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence. 2. A distinct article, stipulation, or provision in a document. [Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin.
Syntax in literature refers to the actual way in which words and sentences are placed together in the writing. Usually in the English language the syntax should follow a pattern of subject-verb-object agreement but sometimes authors play around with this to achieve a lyrical, rhythmic, rhetoric or questioning effect.