PENETRATING INJURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does penetrating injury mean? 

• PENETRATING INJURY (noun)
  The noun PENETRATING INJURY has 1 sense:

1. injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body

  Familiarity information: PENETRATING INJURY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENETRATING INJURY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

penetrating injury; penetrating trauma

Hypernyms ("penetrating injury" is a kind of...):

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)