PENETRATING INJURY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

penetrating injury; penetrating trauma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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.)

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