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  2. Penetrating trauma - Wikipedia

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    A penetrating injury in which an object enters the body or a structure and passes all the way through an exit wound is called a perforating trauma, while the term penetrating trauma implies that the object does not perforate wholly through. [2] In gunshot wounds, perforating trauma is associated with an entrance wound and an often larger exit ...

  3. What Bullets Do to Bodies - Highline

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    She explained that there are two main categories of trauma: blunt and penetrating. Blunt trauma is like a beating, a fall. Penetrating is a gun or stab wound. “Unfortunately we get a lot of penetrating traumas,” she said. Temple sees 2,500 to 3,000 traumas per year, around 450 of which were gunshot wounds in 2016.

  4. Penetrating head injury - Wikipedia

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    Head injuries caused by penetrating trauma are serious medical emergencies and may cause permanent disability or death. [2] A penetrating head injury involves "a wound in which an object breaches the cranium but does not exit it." In contrast, a perforating head injury is a wound in which the object passes through the head and leaves an exit ...

  5. Gunshot wound - Wikipedia

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    A gunshot wound (GSW) is a penetrating injury caused by a projectile (e.g. a bullet) shot from a gun (typically a firearm). [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Damage may include bleeding , bone fractures , organ damage, wound infection , and loss of the ability to move part of the body . [ 2 ]

  6. Injury in humans - Wikipedia

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    Low-velocity penetration injuries are caused by sharp objects, such as stab wounds, while high-velocity penetration injuries are caused by ballistic projectiles, such as gunshot wounds or injuries caused by shell fragments. [13] Perforated injuries result in an entry wound and an exit wound, while puncture wounds result only in an entry wound.

  7. Moral Injury: Healing - The Huffington Post

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    “After all, service members have to follow orders, and if ordered to do something it is by definition legal and moral.” Difficult problems might arise from official recognition of moral injury: how to measure the intensity of the pain, for instance, and whether the government should offer compensation, as it does for PTSD.

  8. Las Vegas suspect suffered gunshot wound to head prior to ...

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    Las Vegas police said the suspect who died inside a Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel on Wednesday had sustained a gunshot wound to the head prior to the explosion that destroyed ...

  9. Maggie and Paul Murdaugh’s injuries detailed in court filing ...

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    Murdaugh’s youngest son, Paul, 22, had two distinct gunshot wounds to his chest and shoulder and head. The latter included an entrance wound to the left shoulder and side of the neck, proceeding ...