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Definition of Penetrating trauma
1. Noun. Injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Penetrating Trauma
Literary usage of Penetrating trauma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Readiness: Efforts Are Underway for Dod Training in Civilian Trauma by Carol R. Schuster (1998)
"Sentara had less than 400 penetrating trauma cases in 1996, but other trauma
centers that train military medical personnel had about 900 to 1200 cases of ..."
2. Federal Antitrust Policy in the Health Care Marketplace: Hearing Before the edited by Orrin G. Hatch (1997)
"... to become a state designated trauma center caring for the penetrating
trauma (gunshot and knife wounds), and to become a state designated site for at- ..."
3. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"Injury to the lungs may occur in penetrating trauma to the thoracic wall, in
subcutaneous fracture of the ribs, or through a foreign body aspirated into the ..."
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