Definition of Penetrating injury

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

Exact synonyms: Penetrating Trauma
Generic synonyms: Harm, Hurt, Injury, Trauma

Lexicographical Neighbors of Penetrating Injury

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penetrameter
penetrameters
penetrance
penetrances
penetrant
penetrant trait
penetrants
penetrated
penetratees
penetrates
penetratest
penetrating
penetrating injury (current term)
penetrating keratoplasty
penetrating trauma
penetrating ulcer
penetrating wound
penetratingly
penetratingness
penetration bomb
penetration test
penetration tests
penetrations
penetrative
penetratively

Literary usage of Penetrating injury

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ophthalmoscope: A Monthly Review of Current Ophthalmology (1903)
"A typical family history is given. The treatment is also discussed. Ramsay, Maitland.—penetrating injury of the Eye, with three Lashes in the Anterior ..."

2. Injuries and diseases of war: A Manual Based on the Experience of the by Great Britain Army Medical Services (1918)
"Sympathetic ophthalmia never follows a non-penetrating injury. All merely bruised eyes can therefore be left with safety. A foreign body in the globe may ..."

3. St. Mary's Hospital Gazette by St. Mary's Hospital (London, England) (1898)
"The common cause of sympathetic ophthalmia is a penetrating injury. If I ventured, without obtaining statistics, to say that 99 cases out of 100 were ..."

4. Manual of surgery for students and practitioners by William Rose (1904)
"The symptoms sometimes commence with a definite snap or crack, as though something had given way in the orbit; or they may follow a penetrating injury or a ..."

5. General Surgery by Eugen Fröhner (1906)
"Penetrating wounds of large vessels usually close spontaneously (penetrating injury of the jugular from intravenous injection, an occasional penetrating ..."

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