PENETRATING TRAUMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does penetrating trauma mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENETRATING TRAUMA (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 trauma" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

Acute compression of the heart caused by increased intrapericardial pressure due to the collection of blood or fluid in the pericardium from rupture of the heart, penetrating trauma, or progressive effusion.

(Cardiac Tamponade, NCI Thesaurus)

Causes include blunt injuries (e.g., motor vehicle accidents and sports-related injuries) and penetrating traumas (e.g., gunshot and knife injuries).

(Injury to Carotid Artery, NCI Thesaurus)